The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-11-01 00:00:00

To the EDITOR flf The BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON, OCTOIIIIII 31,11121.
the alaaervalions on the foyer, or plague at Dareelona, of
your Correspondent " Noweiwn." in your Paper of yester-
day, are deserving of poblie ettention,aud very general con-
rederition ; their good sense, science, sod good purpose, are
• secompanied by a modesty of pretension soil candour, which
area the beat association in such disquisitions.
It seem, to he high time that the European public, or at
least all its professors of health, should ascertain and agree
that these visitations of mortal sickness are not contateluos.
They are endensfal distempers, arising from stmospliTrical
influence, of moist or dry, brought and spread by miasma,
vapour, or wind; iota affecting the population generally, as
they find subjects disposed to their netioii, by the change of
season, by diet, irritability or debility of habit, or other
conditions of liability to such attack.
These diseases spread without personal tweet, and
do not attack those must expo.ed by contact, or propio-
qtiity to their contagion. Mourn, nurses, priests, physi-
ciana, and the attersdants on the dead, escape for the mast
part. Fear, apprehension, the nervous irritability which
these affections <mite, are a potent ally of the ruling Wee-
tie. ; neglect of reiwrily or ass,stanee is another. Imagina-
tion even is a great propagator of infectiotti distemper in
all cases.
We have, however, now rather to look to preventives or
remedies than to the causes or nature of this melancholy and
mortal visitatiuti. In the cholera minims of India, opines
and alcohol have heel proved to he very powerful and avail-
ing remedies, which any person may prove here on himself
or others 111141P1 the attack of the dysentery, which is so com-
mon is the change of semon in the autumn and spring of
our own climate.
That affection of the throat, lungs, or sternum, which we
call cold, sore throat, or catarrh, and which has become so
common, and of late, in many instances, so fatal with us, in
the damps or cold of our atmosphere, might, with as much
reason as the fever in Spain, be deemed contagious ; as soon
it would, if it unhappily became at any time more general.
This is cadential, arising from the conflict of temperature,
on delicate, or inflammatory and irritable organs, too much
acted on by sudden or long-coutieuedtexposure.
A suggestion is here offered, tbet ill the action of " Mal-
aria," of damp and cold air, and generally of all atmosphe-
rical miasma or Matteis, may be mitigated or neutralized by
a merely mechanical and simple guard or preventive; that of
a screen or veil, depending from the ries of a hat, and pro-
jecting two to four inches from the month and aostrils—
fur this purpose a woollen light fabric or map. is, perhaps,
the best suited. In this seam of remedy the scientific may
refer to the principles and mechanical action of Sir H.
Davy's ingenious and invaluable safety lamp.
Every one can conceive easily, that Winds this screen
there will be foaled an Mesosphere, densined and confined,
of the breath of the iodividual, through which the common
air most pus with nossechange of its temperature, and some
arlaarlare, thee ia,ol4lselicia of its quality, the thing re-
quired when its tAion is malefic; it will probably be en-
tirely neutralized; to which acids, aromatics, or campho-
rated applications to the gauze could much conduce.
ITe all instinctively apply this kind 14 defence, in an im-
pet feet manner, with the hand or the handkerchief applied to
the month and nostril', In screen from severe cold or noisome
eerie; but we have another habit, very ill-suited to the
purpose it is designed fors this is, to tie up the /broad with
flannel, ur other bandages, to defeed the lungs from the
attack of cold or damp, which is made on them by the orifice
of the mouth, and through the aostrils.
This hint is offered without any pretemien to medical
wiener, to those who may know how to appreciate it, and
can have the opportunity of proving its me and value, by
the best evidence, that of experiment and practice.
It.

BOXRKS.
After the hosing matcher on Mou!sey Horst on Tuesday,
and the fancy bad chiefly left the village of Hampton. some
of the Weide, alike fund of the bottle send mischief, propos-
er! that Abbot Humid fight limbo* Hodson, who was present,
Men and there for a purse of 10 guiueaa. Josh. ermined hint-
from a match he had on to fight in six weeks with the
Sussex champion, wiles Hopping Ned, the father of little
Brown, who beat Bunn, elated with the Tuscan grape,
blotted up, ■wore there was plenty of lime le fight
mad get well in six weeks, and Josh. was afeard. This
storm blew over by Josh, giving them all a blessing•
and inviting them Su call upon him when sober.—Shortly
after Oliver was leaving the village, when Ned had a turn at
him, and asked if be was in fighiiug order. " Not to-day,
1 Hoak yon, Neil." was the reply Becniese (continued
Ned) Abbot shall fight you fur ten guineas.."—" He will!"
said Oliver (getting out of his chaise), " what now, on the
Hurst ? Well, go over and bring your man and the money, and
if fur a pint of gin, here sin I!" A pause ensued, and Oliver
went isle one of the inns, when Little Brown put down two
guineas for Abbot to fight Oliver on Tsieeday next fur
. the ten guineas. nod the other eight to be made good on
Saturday evening at Cribb's. The battle is safe of taking
(Hite, amid it will be rather a novel one.

CORUI'..EffS INQUEST.

An inquisition was held on Monday night heron. T. Stir-
ling, Esq. in the absence of Mr. Unwise, at the Bull, at
'Totieubam Green, on the body of W. Boorman, aged 4S,
who &alloyed himself by cutting hr. throat.
It appeared that the deceased, • few yelra aco, had been
• linen-draper at Upper (lepton, and lived in the highest
respectability, and esteemed by every one; but from psis.
*atones is Issisiaras, together with his large family, having
a wife and nine children, he was reduced to • very low state,
and his distressea came on act fast that they were obliged to
live in a bark room, in a state of antrvation. The unhappy
man., eager to procure a crust fur his family, employed him-
self selling oysters at the different public. houses, and those
who knew him would now and thew admisister to hi■
wants. Some time bark his wife went into a decline, and
had been a burden on him ever since, which increased his
distieni greatly, and he was observed to be always in a me-
laacholy state. Ott Satin-day night last the family were
alarmed at his nut coming home as usual, and in the morn-
ilgg the melancholy news reached the ear of his sick wife, that
her unforin•ale longhand had bee■ (nand in a cow hovel
'hekseging to Mr. Usher, at Page Green, Tottenham, with his
throat rut, a re:Jr covered with blood was found by his side.
Tie Jury returned a verdict of Insanity.

As Mr. S. Sorre, of lleas-s,reet, aecompanied by his
friend. • Mr. Beniagburough, were returning to London
from Twickenham, io a single horse chaise, on Tuesday
evening, the chaise was drisea against She wheel of a awl-
east is the Kinds-►oad, when travelling at the rale of 12
miles an hour, and apart with a mash which shattered it in
pieces. Mr. Morre, who was driving, was taken up in •
senseless and hopeless slate, and Mr. Beoingborough had his
arm and collar-bone broke,.

In the night of Friday sennight, as Mr. Warmit,
'of Stowmarket, Was returning in a gig from the Ser-
lions, at Ipswich, he was met and upset by another,
VA-ar the late Mr. FRITISAN'o, of Combo, and now
hes in a dangerous state.