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The same in Itania: containing the particulars of the lian. 10s. 6d. REPORT OF DISEASES, In the public and private Practice of one of the Physicians of the City Dispensary, from the 20th May, to the 20th June, 1807. Phthisis Pulmonalis Catarrhus Cynanche Tonsillaris Rheumatismus. Febris Hypochondriasis. Hæmorrhois Icterus Asthma Morbi Cutanei Morbi Infantiles ment. 4 and instinct a much more sure and 2 certain director. Observe also, that 10 those animals more immediately under 2 the direction of man, as horses, cows, 4 and other domesticated animals, are 3 much more subject to disease and 6 death than wild animals, or the same 7 species in the wild state. When left 4 to the direction of their natural in5 stincts, they enjoy uninterrupted 4 health; but, subjugated by the ca5 price of man, they become partakers 4 of his calamities. 4 Man, again, in the most unculti2 vated state, possesses, in a considera3 ble degree, several of those advan2 tages, which brute animals have over 9 him. In proportion as the human 4 race are less civilized, they are more 6 guided by instinct, and are therefore 16 proportionally strangers to the refined IN our last report, we noticed the pleasures, as well as the miseries to frequency of disease and death, which their more cultivated brethren among the infants of mankind; and are subject. It is, indeed, the prothat these evils arose from their mis- vince of reason to correct and prevent management, or from a general over-, the impetuous action of our instincts sight, of all the laws and institutions and passions, and, as far as this is of Nature, in regard to their treat- done, man arrives, with respect to temporal things, at the utmost perfecThe inferior animals, incapable of tion of which his nature is capable. combining ideas, and drawing con- But, unhappily, from the improper clusions; not favoured with the boast- use of those mental faculties which so ed reasoning power of man, but strikingly distinguish us from the infewholly guided by the dictates of pure rior animals, we frequently observe instinct, seldom, if ever, deviate from the most capricious deviations from the laws and institutions of Nature. the laws and institutions of Nature, They vary not in their modes of life. to which the uninformed savage, and They never employ, except from the the irrational animal, would most most urgent necessity, any species of rigidly adhere. It follows, therefore, food but what is consonant to their that in a considerable part of the ordinature; and in their general habits of mary conduct of life, instinct is a life, they never pursue courses inju- guide, upon whose direction, we can rious to that constitution which Na- with much more safety rely, than on ture has bestowed upon them. They that of reason; and that inuch advanare, therefore, strangers to many of tage may be derived, from an accuthose diseases and calamities existing rate knowledge of our own instincts, among mankind, which evidently as well as those of the inferior animals. owe their origin to deviations froin Were it possible to ascertain with the laws and institutions of Nature. Thus, in the general economy of life, reason is a frail and erring guide, certainty what are indeed the natural instincts of man, we should, as far as these go, be possessed of an unerring guide. But, among civilized nations, are only to be found pure and unde- And Such, also, would be the case with Again, if we search for the natural our infants, were they treated accordinstincts of man among the savage ing to the pure dictates and inten nations, we shall also find ourselves tions of Nature. Thus treated, ininvolved in difficulties, and in danger stead of pain they would have every of deception; for, though more imme- agreeable sensation; instead of leandiately under the direction of this ness and emaciation they would have principle than civilized nations, yet plumpness; instead of distortion, and we are unacquainted with any savage a stinted growth, they would have tribe among whom some mode of every beauty of shape, and a growth education does not exist, and by the most perfect. In one word, inwhich the natural feelings and in- stead of disease and death, they would stincts of man are more or less per- have life and health. Nature's ecoverted. And, in proportion to the nomy would be perfect within them. prevalence of ignorance, and its con- Let us, therefore, hearken to the comitant, superstition, it is proba- voice of Nature; relinquish our old ble that, in some instances at least, practices and prejudices; forget as if their deviations from the laws and in- we had never learned them; then see stitutions of Nature, will be more the institutions, intentions, and dieabsurd and preposterous. tates of Nature in the treatment of Where then, are we to find pre- our infants: see them illustrated, cepts to guide us, in the right manage- strengthened, and confirmed, by the ment of our infants? They are not example of those of our own species, to be found in civilized society; for who have not wandered so far from there perverted reason reigns tri- the paths of Nature; and by the conumphant, and absurd and destructive duct of the inferior animals, who practices universally prevail. Neither know nothing but obedience to her are they to be found among the savage institutions, her dictates, and her nations; for they also, in some mea- laws, sure, forsake the paths of Nature, and J. HERDMAN. 25th June, 1807. follow their own inventions. Where, Old Broad-Street, then, are they to be found? They 44 APOLLONIAN CRITIC. SEMPER FIDELIS." Oh, open the door." Written by the general structure of his harmony, Burns. The Music composed and Nor do we approve of either of the dedicated to Miss Merle, by Win. symphonies. The time is, but at the commencement of the fifth bar Holland. Price 1s. 6d. WE suppose this to be one of Mr. he goes into or triple time, without Holland's first productions; and notice; and we must add without taking it for granted that it is so, we either rhyme or reason: for although feel disposed to be merciful in our ap- it may be contended that six quavers plication of the lash of criticism. Te are equal, in point of time or duration, melody, we must say, is pleasing, welk to three crotchets, or that a minim and adapted to the words, and discove's a crotchet together are also of equal at least, a considerable portion of taste measure; yet the divisions being and ingenuity. But here we must wholly different, do certainly constistop; as we really cannot commend tute triple time, and should be so de |