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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement/Allardyce, Alexander

​ALLARDYCE, ALEXANDER (1846–1896), author, son of James Allardyce, farmer, was born on 21 Jan. 1846 at Tilly-minit, Gartly, parish of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire. Receiving his first lessons in Latin from his maternal grandmother (Smith, An Aberdeenshire Village Propaganda), he was educated at Rhynie parish school, Aberdeen grammar school, and the university of Aberdeen. In 1868 he became sub-editor of the 'Friend of India' at Serampore, Bengal. Lord Mayo appreciated him so highly that he offered him an assistant-commissionership, but he kept to journalism. He was on the 'Friend of India' till 1875, having apparently at the same time done work for the 'Indian Statesman.' In 1875 he succeeded John Capper as editor of the 'Ceylon Times,' and one of his early experiences of office was tendering an apology to the judicial bench for contempt (London Times, 25 April 1896). Returning to Europe, he was for a time at Berlin and afterwards in London, where he wrote for 'Fraser's Magazine,' the 'Spectator,' and other periodicals. In 1877 he settled at Edinburgh as reader to the house of Messrs. William Blackwood and Sons, and assistant-editor of 'Blackwood's Magazine.' He died at Portobello on 23 April 1896, and was buried in Rhynie parish churchyard, Aberdeenshire.
When comparatively young Allardyce married his cousin, Barbara Anderson, who survived him. There was no family.
Allardyce wrote:
* ‘The City of Sunshine,’ 1877; 2nd edit. 1894; a vivacious tale of Indian life and manners.
* ‘Memoir of Viscount Keith of Stonehaven Marischal, Admiral of the Red,’ 1882; a trustworthy work.
* ‘Balmoral, a Romance of the Queen's Country,’ 1893; a Jacobite tale.
* ‘Earlscourt, a Novel of Provincial Life,’ 1894.
In 1888 he edited two works of rare value and interest (each in 2 vols. 8vo): (1) the Ochtertyre MSS. of John Ramsay under the title of ‘Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century,’ and (2) ‘Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe’ [q. v.] Allardyce regularly wrote political and literary articles for ‘Blackwood's Magazine,’ and his skill in handling a short story is illustrated in the third series of ‘Tales from Blackwood.’ At the time of his death he was preparing the volume on Aberdeenshire for Messrs. Blackwood's series of county histories.
[Private information; Times, Scotsman, and Aberdeen Free Press of 24 April, and Athenæum of 2 May 1896.]
T. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement/Allan, Henry Marshman Havelock

​ALLAN, Sir HENRY MARSHMAN HAVELOCK (1830–1897), general. [See Havelock-Allan.]
# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/thoih
### thoih

* 藉thoih97314014
* To bolster up.

#### thoih kàu nĕ ńng-ńng;

    bolster it up very carefully.

#### hṳ́ ĕ tîeh ŭ mûeh thoih, cìaⁿ bŏi tiaⁿ-cŭang tīo;

    there must be something soft put under it, then it will not be broken by a thump.

#### hṳ́ ĕ thoih kò̤ tê-tĭen sĭ chiu-kue-phûe;

    the mat which is under the tea-pot is a vegetable sponge.
* 嘽thôih8543012
* To pant, as horses do.

#### hía bé kiaⁿ kàu thôih;

    the horse pants from fright.
* 奄thôih1088375
* To gasp, as if in death.

#### thóiⁿ-kìⁿ thôih-a-thôih, hŵn-lío cîah ke ku-ā nî;

    looked as if gasping his last breath and yet lived for many more years.

#### khùn kàu tó̤ thôih;

    so nearly exhausted that ​he gasps.

#### i khùn-jîak căi, tàⁿ bŏ̤ kù ūe, cū tó̤ thôih;

    he is very weak, and gasps if he speaks a word.
# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/thoa
### thoa

* 拖thoa911645
* To drag along; to haul after one; to pull along by the hand.

#### i sĭ khṳt i thoa-lŭi tîeh kâi;

    she became involved in it through him.

#### i kâi ūe tàⁿ lío thoa nî tòa cúi;

    he drags the subject of his speech through mud and water; he has a very turgid and verbose style of walking.

#### cêk ē khah tn̂g thoa-thoa tâh-tâh, to m̄-hó̤;

    if it be too long it draggles on the ground and gets under foot and is very troublesome.

#### tṳ tó̤ thoa sim-mûeh?

    What is the pig trailing after him?
* 帶thòa846508
* To take along with one; to bring at the same time.

#### lṳ́ ín-thòa i khṳ̀ tī kò̤?

    Whither are you leading him?

#### ŭ nâng ín-thòa i khṳ̀;

    some one is conducting him away.

#### thòa-lîen-l̆ui tîeh pât nâng;

    implicate others.

#### thòa chíu khîeh lâi;

    bring it along when you come.

#### cí cêk thòa kâi chù lóng-cóng i kâi;

    all these dwellings are his.

#### thòa tàⁿ ke kúi taⁿ lâi;

    while you are about it bring a few more carries.

#### cûn àiⁿ lâi li kŭa hía hùe-mûeh thòa cài lâi;

    when the boat is coming bring those goods along in it.
# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/thoah
### thoah

* 揩thoah362649
* To rub or grate an article on something below it.

#### thoah tīo i kâi phûe;

    grate off its rind.

#### saⁿ khṳt i thoah phùa khṳ̀;

    he has rubbed a hole through the garment in scrubbing it on the ​wash-board.

#### ìⁿ-bí thoah cheng-khih;

    rub all the husks off the barley by rubbing it on a rough surface.
* 淅thoah803858
* To wash or scour rice.

#### cang thoah bí kâi cúi khṳ̀ sói;

    wash it in the water in which rice has been scoured.

#### thoah bí tîeh thoah thíam cē;

    in washing the rice you must stir it about more violently.
# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/thoiⁿ
### thóiⁿ

* 看thóiⁿ3161094
* To look at; to see; to regard carefully; aspect.

#### chin mâk thóiⁿ-kìⁿ;

    see with one's own eyes.

#### lṳ́ thóiⁿ-kìⁿ mē?

    Do you see it?

#### khṳt úa thóiⁿ;

    let me see it.

#### úa li thóiⁿ-m̄-kìⁿ;

    I do not see it.

#### hó̤ thóiⁿ căi;

    presenting an admirable appearance.

#### thóiⁿ m̄ cĭeⁿ mâk;

    the sight is repulsive.

#### lṳ́ thóiⁿ tîeh hó̤ a m̄-hó̤?

    Do you consider it well to do so or not?

#### thóiⁿ kha thóiⁿ chíu;

    to stare at one.

#### khṳt úa thóiⁿ phùa lío;

    I have seen through it; the trick of it has been found out by me.

#### thóiⁿ m̄ chit;

    cannot perceive it.

#### thóiⁿ tîeh m̄ pat tò̤ jīn;

    do not recognize it.

#### i cheⁿ-mêⁿ, mâk-ciu thóiⁿ m̄ kìⁿ;

    he is blind, and does not see.

#### híen khui lâi thóiⁿ;

    turn over the leaves and see.

#### thóiⁿ cṳ;

    to read silently.

#### thóiⁿ sìeⁿ kâi nâng;

    a physiognomist.

#### i jī ke tó̤ sie thóiⁿ;

    the two are looking at each other.

#### i cē thóiⁿ tŏ̤ i mâk cū tŏ̤ i chíu;

    as soon as he takes a fancy to a thing he has it.

#### i cē thóiⁿ tŏ̤ i mâk cū tŏ̤ i tó;

    as soon as it comes within the range of his eye, he takes it into his mind.

#### thóiⁿ khin;

    look upon with contempt.

#### thóiⁿ tăng; thóiⁿ tŏng;

    regard with respect.

#### cía sĭ cêk īeⁿ thóiⁿ huap;

    this is his way of looking at things.

#### thóiⁿ mn̂g;

    watch the house.

#### i thóiⁿ i, ithóiⁿ i;

    looking at each other.

#### thóiⁿ kàu kông;

    look till dazed.

#### thóiⁿ-síu sîaⁿ mn̂g;

    guard the city gates.

#### m̄ pat thóiⁿ-kìⁿ;

    never saw.

#### lṳ́ phīⁿ thóiⁿ hó̤ a m̄-hó̤;

    you examine it by smelling it and see whether it is good.

#### cîah thóiⁿ hó̤ mē;

    taste some and see if it is good.

#### chì thóiⁿ jîeh hó̤;

    try it and see how good it is.

#### mông thòiⁿ jîeh kût;

    feel and see how smooth it is.

#### thóiⁿ m̄ hīn;

    do not see clearly.
# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/thoi
### thoi

* 釵thoi111673
* A hair-pin, broad and curved so that it will lie across the occiput; those who wear hair-pins, females.

#### kim thoi;

    gold hair-pins.

#### hŏng thoi;

    a hair-pin with a phenix on it.

#### kim-thoi cîeh hôk; thoi-hôk;

    a kind of medicine, the stem of an orchid, whose dried stalks are likened to hair-pins, and look like liquorice roots.
* 體thói88418813
* The body, the whole person; a solid; a class; a body of officers; the important; essentials; becoming; respectable; influential; to receive courteously.

#### sin-thói;

    the human body; bodily.

#### chut sin lò thói;

    chiah sin lò thói; stark naked.

#### cìeⁿ-seⁿ m̄ hah thói-sek;

    that is not in good taste.

#### cò̤ mih sṳ̄ to tîeh tit thói;

    all things must be done decently and in order; in everything, suitable respect must be paid to persons.

#### thói-thiap;

    to accommodate; to sympathize with; to put one's self in another's place.

#### i mih sṳ̄ to thói-thiap nâng;

    he is very accommodating in everything.

#### thói-thóng;

    decorum; what is befititng.

#### chŵn bô̤ kâi thói-thóng;

    has no sense of propriety.

#### úa thóiⁿ i bô̤ kâi sin-seⁿ thói;

    he does not appear to me to have the aspect of a teacher.
* 代thòi84583
* Instead, for, in place of; to alter; to supersede; to substitute.

#### nŏ̤ nâng sie táu thòi;

    the two spell each other at it.

#### ŭ sî úa li thòi lú, ŭ sî lṳ́ li thò̤i úa;

    sometimes you take my place, and sometimes I take yours.

#### lṳ́ thòi i cò̤;

    you do it in his stead.

#### cang cí kâi thòi hṳ́ kâi lâi chō̤;

    take this to put it in instead of that.

#### kò cêk kâi thòi-sin;

    hire a substitute.

#### cí kâi sĭ i kâi thòi-sin;

    this is his substitute.

#### i sĭ thòi nâng cò̤ sṳ̄;

    he is acting in another's place.

#### kio pât nâng thòi phōiⁿ hùe-mûeh;

    buying and selling goods for another person.

#### thó̤ khṳ̀ thò̤i nâng sí;

    ask the privilege of dying in another's stead.

#### cí kâi kuaⁿ sĭ thòi ĺi kâi;

    this magistrate is acting in place of another.

#### i tàⁿ i cí nŏ̤ mêⁿ thiaⁿ-kìⁿ kúi tó̤ hàm thòi;

    he says he has heard a bodiless spirit calling him these last two nights to commit suicide.
# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/thoaⁿ
### thoaⁿ

* 耨thóaⁿ91812710
* To weed; to clear grounds of grass.

#### thóaⁿ cháu;

    pull up the weeds.

#### cháu thóaⁿ cheng-khih lío;

    the weeds are all pulled.
* 檀thô̤aⁿ8547513
* Tough hard wood, resembling rosewood.

#### thôaⁿ-hieⁿ;

    sandal wood.
# Digger Smith/Sawin' Wood

* But nothin's doin'. They jist goes on in.
Sawin' Wood
I WONDERED wot was doin'. First I seen
Ole Missus Flood wave signals to Doreen.
I'm in the paddick slashin' down some ferns;
She's comin' up the road; an' if she turns
An 'andspring I won't be su'prised a bit,
The way she's caperin', an' goin' it.
She yells out some remark when she gets near,
Which I don't catch, I'm too fur off to 'ear.
An' then Doreen comes prancin' to our door,
An' Missus Flood she sprints, an' yells some more;
My wife runs to the gate an' waves 'er arms. . . .
But I lays low; I'm used to these alarms.
A marri'd bloke, in time, 'e learns a bit;
An' 'e ain't over keen to throw a fit
Each time the women calls the fire-reel out.
It's jist a trifle 'e'll know all about
When things get normal. That's a point I learn;
So I saws wood, an' keeps on cuttin' fern.
​At least, I cut a few. I got to give
Reel fac's, an' own I was inquisitive;
An' these 'ere fireworks gets me fair perplexed.
I watch the 'ouse to see wot 'appens next;
But nothin's doin'. They jist goes on in,
An' leaves me wonderin' wot's caused the din.
I stands it for a full 'arf-hour or more;
Then gets dead sick uv starin' at the door.
I goes down to the 'ouse an' 'unts about
To find some 'baccer, which I 'ave no doubt
Is in me trousers pocket all the while.
When I goes in, the talk stops, an' they smile.
I sez I've lost me smoke, an' search a bit,
An' ask Doreen wot 'as became uv it,
An' turns the mantelshelf all upside-down,
An' looks inside the teapot, with a frown;
Then gives it up, an' owns I'd like a drink;
When Missus Flood sez, "Bill, wot do you think?"
Now, ain't that like a woman? Spare me days,
I'll never get resigned to all their ways.
When they 'as news to tell they smile, an' wink,
An' bottle it, an' ask yeh wot yeh think.
It's jist a silly game uv theirs, an' so,
I gives the countersign: "Wot? I dunno."
​"Then guess," she sez. Well, I'm a patient bloke,
So I sits down an' starts to cut a smoke.
(To play this game yeh've got to persevere.)
"Couldn't," I sez, "if I guessed for a year";
Then lights me pipe, an' waits for 'er to speak.
At last she sez, "Jim's comin' back next week!"
"Go on," sez I; an' puffs away awhile
Quite unconcerned. But for to see 'er smile
Was jist a treat: 'er eyes was shinin' bright,
An' she'd grow'd ten years younger in a night.
Jist 'ere, Doreen she sez to me, "Good Lor,
Wot do yeh want two plugs uv 'baccer for?"
I takes me pipe out uv me mouth an' stares,
An' stammers, "Must 'ave found a piece—somewheres."
But, by the way she smiles—so extra sweet—
I know she twigs me game, an' I am beat.
"Fancy," she sez. "Yeh're absent-minded, dear.
Sure there was nothin' else yeh wanted 'ere?"
"Nothin'," I sez, an' feels a first-prize fool;
An' goes outside, an' grabs the nearest tool.
It was the crosscut; so I works like mad
To keep me self-respeck from goin' bad.
"This game," I tells meself, "will do yeh good.
You ain't proficient, yet, at sawin' wood."
# Digger Smith/Publisher's Catalogue

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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement/Chase, William St. Lucian

​CHASE, WILLIAM ST. LUCIAN (1856–1908), lieut.-colonel, eldest son of Captain Richard Henry Chase of the control department of the war office, was born in St. Lucia, West Indies, on 21 Aug. 1856. He was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and entered the army as sub​lieutenant in the 15th foot on 10 Sept. 1875, becoming lieutenant and joining the Bombay staff corps on 31 May 1878. He served in the Afghan war of 1879 to 1880, taking part In the defence of Kandahar. With Private James Ashford of the royal fusiliers he showed conspicuous gallantry on the occasion of the sortie from Kandahar on 16 Aug. 1880 against the village of Deh Kwaja. Chase and Ashford then rescued a wounded soldier, Private Massey of the royal fusiliers, who had taken shelter in a blockhouse, and brought him to a place of safety, carrying him over 200 yards under the fire of the enemy. For this service both Chase and Ashford were awarded the Victoria Cross (4 Oct. 1881) and were mentioned in despatches.
Chase served with the Zhob Valley expedition in 1884 as deputy assistant quartermaster-general, and was again mentioned in despatches. From 1 Nov. 1882 to 10 Dec. 1887 he was deputy assistant adjutant-general, Bombay. Promoted captain on 10 Sept. 1886, he was appointed on 28 Aug. 1889 wing commander of the 28th Bombay native infantry (pioneers). He took part in the Lushai expeditionary force in 1889-90, and was again mentioned in despatches, receiving also the medal with clasp. In 1893 he officiated as second in command of the regiment. Promoted major on 10 Sept. 1895, he served on the N.W. frontier in 1897-8 against the Mohmands (Lond. Oaz. 11 Jan. 1898), receiving the medal with clasp, and was also present in the Tirah campaign of 18978, taking part in the capture of the Sampagha Pass, in the operations at and around Datoi, in the action of 24 Nov. 1897, and in the operations in the Bara Valley, 7 to 11 Dec. 1897 (Despatches, Lond. Gaz. 5 April 1898).
On 10 June 1899 he became regimental commandant of the 28th Bombay native infantry, with the temporary rank of lieut.-colonel. He was nominated C.B. in 1903. Later he became assistant adjutant-general Quetta division, and was on leave when promoted to command the Fyzabad brigade. He returned to Quetta, where he died of brain disease on 30 June 1908.
He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and of the Royal Geographical Society. He married in 1901 Dorothy, daughter of Charles Edward Steele, district magistrate of Hyderabad.
[Hart's and Official Army Lists; The Times, 20 July 1908; H. B. Hanna, The Second Afghan War, 1910, iii. 456.]
H. M. V.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement/Chapman, Edward John

​CHAPMAN, EDWARD JOHN (1821–1904), mineralogist, was born in London on 22 Feb. 1821, and educated in France and Germany, where he gave special attention to chemistry and mineralogy. He was professor of mineralogy in University College, London, from 1849 to 1853, and professor of mineralogy and geology at the University of Toronto from 1853 to 1895.
His earlier researches, dealing mostly with analyses of minerals, were published in the 'Philosophical Magazine,' 'Chemical Gazette,' &c. He also described some artesian wells near Silsoe, in Bedfordshire (Phil. Mag. 1852); and made experiments on the absorption of water by chalk (ibid. 1853), the mean results indicating that certain strata in that formation could absorb two and a half gallons of water per cubic foot.
After settling in Canada he acted as general editor (1856-66) of the 'Canadian Journal : a Repertory of Industry, Science, and Art,' published at Toronto. His researches now widened. He studied the minerals, rocks, and fossils of Canada, published analyses of coal and iron-ore, wrote on fossil brachiopods, on crinoids and their classification, on trilobites, and on certain fossil tracks termed 'Protichnites' and 'Climactichnites,' which he regarded as impressions of fucoids. In 1864 he issued 'A Popular and Practical ​Exposition of the Minerals and Geology of Canada' (2nd edit. 1871; 3rd edit. 1888, re-named 'The Minerals and Geology of Central Canada').
Chapman became Ph.D. in 1860, and the degree of LL.D. was subsequently conferred on him. He died at the Pines, Hampton Wick, Middlesex, on 28 Jan. 1904. His works include: 1. 'Practical Mineralogy,' 1843. 2. 'A Brief Description of the Characters of Minerals,' 1844. 3. 'An Outline of the Geology of Canada,' Toronto, 1870. 4. 'Blowpipe Practice,' Toronto, 1880. 5. 'Mineral-Systems: a Review, with Outline of an attempted Classification of Minerals in Natural Groups' (posthumous), 1904. He also published 'A Drama of Two Lives,' a volume of verse, in 1899.
[Mineralogical Mag. xiv. 1904, p. 65; Geol. Mag., 1904, p. 144.]
H. B. W.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement/Chase, Marian Emma

​CHASE, MARIAN EMMA (1844–1905), water-colour painter, born on 18 April 1844 at 62 Upper Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, London, was the second of the three daughters of John Chase (1810-1879) by his second wife Georgiana Ann Harris. Miss Chase was educated at a private school at Ham, near Richmond. Her father, a member of the New Water Colour Society (now the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours), taught her perspective and water-colour painting; Margaret Gillies [q. v.] gave her instruction in drawing from the life; and she enjoyed the friendship and advice of Henry Warren, president of the New Water Colour Society, E. H. Wehnert [q. v.], Henry Tidey [q. v.], and other artists. In early life she devoted a good deal of time to illuminating, but it was as a painter in water-colour of flowers, fruit, and still-life that she made her mark, by virtue of her truthful colouring and delicate treatment. She painted in the same medium interiors, a few landscapes, and, towards the close of her life, studies of flower-gardens; in her figure subjects she was less successful. She also occasionally worked in oil. She exhibited from 1866 to 1905 at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute, the Dudley Gallery, the Grosvenor Gallery, the International Exhibition of 1871 and various provincial, colonial, and foreign exhibitions. On 22 March 1875 she was elected an associate of the Institute of Painters in Water Colours (now the Royal Institute), and in 1879 she became a full member. In 1888 the Royal Botanical Society awarded her a silver medal. Save for a tour abroad with her father about 1876, Miss Chase, who resided in later life at Brondesbury, worked entirely in England. She died from heart-failure after an operation on 15 March 1905, and was buried in St. Pancras Cemetery, Finchley.
At the Bethnal Green Museum is a water-colour drawing, 'Wild Flowers,' by her. Miss M. C. Matthison of Temple Fortune House has a collection of her works, as well as a pastel portrait of her as a child, and a miniature portrait painted shortly before her death by Miss Luie Chadwick.
[Information kindly supplied by Miss M. C. Matthison; E. C. Clayton, English Female Artists, ii. 183-5; Men and Women of the Time, 1899; Graves, Dictionary of Artists; Cat. Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (with some reproductions); Cat. Water Colours, Victoria and Albert Museum; W. S. Sparrow, Women Painters of the World, 1905, p. 130 (reproduction); Standard, 18 April 1878; Queen, 15 Feb. 1890 (portrait); St. John's Wood, Kilburn and Hampstead Advertiser, 29 Aug. 1901 and 23 March 1905 (portrait).]
B. S. L.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Adder-stung

Edition of 1802.
​Adder-stung is used in respect to cattle, when stung by any kind of venomous reptiles, as adders, scorpions, &c. or when bit by a hedge-hog or shrew. For the cure of such bites, some persons use an ointment made of dragon's blood, with a little barley-meal and the whites of eggs.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Adderwort

Edition of 1802.
​Adderwort. See Great Bistort, or Polygonum Bistorta, L.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Actæa Spicata

Edition of 1802.
​Actæa Spicata, L. See Herb Christopher.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Adulteration

Edition of 1802.
​ADULTERATION is the corruption, or debasement by an improper mixture, of any substance that was originally in a pure state. This art, though not unknown to the ancients, has in modern times been carried to a great extent; insomuch that we are sorry to observe, the rules and principles upon which so pernicious a practice is founded, are considered as qualifications essential to those persons who supply others as well with the common necessaries, as the luxuries, of life. We are, indeed, provided with excellent laws against adulterations; but crafty and avaricious dealers take frequent opportunities, either of eluding the vigilance and severity of justice, or of concealing their nefarious practices in so skilful a manner, as to render their detection extremely difficult, and sometimes impossible. We shall, therefore, consider it as our duty to point out those articles which are most liable to this species of fraud. They may be found under the different heads of Beer, Bread, Coffee, Hair-Powder, Honey, Oil, Snuff, Spirits, Tea, Tobacco, Vinegar, Wax, Wine, &c. &c.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Advertisement

Edition of 1802.
​ADVERTISEMENT, generally, signifies any information given to those who are interested in a common concern. It more particularly alludes to a short account of an affair inserted in a public newspaper. We should scarcely have noticed this article, had it not been with a view to caution the unwary, and animadvert upon the fraudulent practices to which the advertisements of the present day are frequently subservient; for instance, those of money-lenders, servants'-office keepers, agents for place-men, adventurers, marriage-brokers, and other unprincipled individuals, who prey upon the credulity of the public. Hence we venture to suggest an opinion, that it would be more conducive to the interests of society, if the public prints were subjected to some regulations in this respect; and that no advertisement could be inserted, without being authenticated before a magistrate. By this precaution, the editor and printer of a newspaper, who sometimes become the innocent accomplices of fraud or swindling, would be secured against the attempts of those who frequently avail themselves of this mode of publication, to make it a vehicle for falsehood and depredation.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Acute Diseases

Edition of 1802.
​ACUTE DISEASES are such as are either attended with inflammation, or other urgent symptoms, which bring on an early crisis, and render them dangerous in their consequence: hence they are opposed to chronic diseases, or those which, though of slower progress, may nevertheless terminate in dissolution. As the former are more in need of the immediate assistance of art, we shall state the most proper methods of treating them in their commencement, as well as the suitable diet and regimen to be observed in them, under the different heads of Apoplexy, Asthma (suffocative), Cholera Morbus, Colics, Convulsions, Cramps or Spasms, Epilepsy, Fevers (inflammatory), Fractures, Hydrophobia, Inflammations, &c. &c.