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London, England, 1817-10-24 00:00:00

DIXON'S AN nut) lOW PILLS
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VITIATE!) BILE is the fruitful source of all
those disonlers width act nn the Stomach and Dowels,
occadoning Indigestion, Hearthion, Fln'<ore, Headaches,
Simons, and a variety of other Arc-nous, the constvtence of a
disordered action of the Liver and Organs. Theao Pills
take every recommendation of mild operar;on with successful
effect; and requiring 1.0 restramt or confinement dirtily. their use,
are in particular a moat valuable and conseulent Me.dicine for
Gentleawn of the Army ors Nairry; and Travellers. In tropical
olimstes where the conseqtrertoci of rodundan* and vitiated 1311 fr
!am se Prevalent and &larding, they are an effectual protection
from those girths—They are Wanes peculiarly calculated to ger-
, rest thsonien arising from excesses' of the table, and to restore
the injured tone sof dap stomach. - •

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Sold in boxes at 24 nd. do. I is. and Ws (by Appointment) by
R. SUTLER and Sena, Chaining, No. *, Cheapiide, corner of St.
Awl', Onside-yard; Sanger, ISO, Osferd.atreet ; Shattle*orth,
oPPothe the East-India House, Lrailenhalhatrect ; Wright sad
Cu. No. MN Hilb- emit; norolith: and by the principal Book.
and Druggist. to 'wry Oty and Town in the Kingdan.

NOB Olt WOWS sal eaters vita.--Ma ItTialott
"Life Is rutty Life. when bk3t with Health.*
THE finest system of Ethics is to ewnfine within due
hdunds. at.d thus to regulate the PASSIONS; unrestrained
arid initibur.lirroe they impetuously destroy those barriers which
keijus and Morality have made sacred; to curb bat not sour-
Lt. tittle* appears the lesson of Prudence, beet cakulated to
Let their 141rrestveenee. _ _ _

Every disnreat.ization of the human frame requires great me-
d•cal knowledge to remedy, and the public welfare is promote,l
when Prof/atonal men (disregarding the suggestiobs of the ca-
vities and
_interested) devote their studies to the treatment of
those complaints generate.: by imprudence, and the ebullition of !
tin panions at an unguarded moment. "Thc strength of a na-
thm contists In the health of thepeopler but it is melancholy to
ou the daily sacrifiee to the ignorance of unfeeling empyti-
wen, and to counteract as far as possible its further ravages, we
offer to suffering humanity, the result of our own experience in the
wirings dicta: es of bebility. The unwary victim of solitary vice,
(early aequir,d at scbooT, before Reason has asserted her right
over the mimi), will, in contempiatieg his powerless state beione
tibeeptible of enlivening. seueatioas, in knuwing that the moat
cent:heated gate of exhaustion may be rotted into manly energy.
hiteuse study—immoderate anxiety—long residence in tropical
Nimes, and many other causes, will frequently derange the sea.
eon &erre ;in such Cayes we can bold out an assentor* of re-
anintatien, by remedies which hive long answered the sanguine
hopes of patienti of both sexes.
'lint bane to human haypiness toes ever a CA, can now be
treated Carlessly, the iuiprovtd•state of Medical Silence having
tbeested its antidote of those distressing properties that so king
rendered its exhibition etteertap,and harassing. We best explain
our method by observing to patients labouring under this malady,
that a le* days only are reqaired for the removal of early symp-
toms; that the mein inveterate case will yield to our remedies
within a !ninth,. add that in a person who only suspects bimtelf
idured, the disease may be prevented altogether from appearing.
Educate•! in this our native city; schooled in our professional
attainment by its Splendid medical characters; and having been
able, personally, to compare with admiration the British Surgical
practice, with tke continental, our pteteaN•na to superiority (in
a branch we have selected) are matures' by. experience, which is
evinced by the daily applications we receive, even Irons distant
countries. GOSS and Co.' M. IL. C. Surgeons.
13, Bouverle-street, Fleet street, London.
•. For the general accomModolon we do not limit ourselves
to stated periods of practice, but may be consulted at ail reason-
able seem—Country Patients are requested to describe minutely
their s)tuptotus,&c. when medicine, with advice, TAU he inane.
diately forwarded to any pan of the ISinsdonl.4 dent-sines Is
expected tis Koslow] ON we.

For the accommodation of suels persons as possess fisrgrave's
S:air I rink, a separate n•le page ha• beco printed, so as to ren.er
the Continuation applic...isle to that 2$ well u to the oe:avo
mos. I huh 'hope who s ash to p,...ess me Modern State rrialt,
ci her a% a separate work, or as a Supplement to either of the C.ols
Irctions, may be pruvided with it accordingly.

LUNAIR. POOR IN IRELAND.

SUPORT.

The S,..lect Committee appointed to inquire into
the expediency of making further Providon for the
Relief of the Lunatic Poor in Ireland, 'nine, purs'uant
to the Order of the House, inquired into the subject
referred to them, and have agreed upon the iul:owing
Report :_

Your Committee have inquired, as to the extent of
the accommodation which may be afforded by the
present establish cuts in the
.several counties in Ire
land, and are of opinion, that those establishments
are totally inadequate for the reception of the 11111AtiC
poor. An Hospital attached to the House of Industry
in Dublin, was originally the filly receptacle in that
city for persons of the lower classes, who were afflicted
wan mental derangement ; and the cells attached to
site Infirmaries or Poor Houses is winse of the coun-
ties were by no means calculated for the restoration
to sanity, or•even for the safe custody and care of the
unhappy persons who were suffering under so tread.
ful a malady. Your Committee refer, on this sub-1
j:ct, to the evidence which they have received, and
to the docnments and returns which are annexed. In
the year 1810, the necessity of applying some relief
was brought by his Majesty's Government under the
consideration of Parliament, and liberal grants were,
made for the erection of an Asylum in Dublin, un-
der the name of a The Richmond Lunatic Asylum,"
capatsle of accommodating 200 patients. In the year
1815, 170 lunatics were removed from the House of
Industry into the new Hospital; and yet so great has
been the increase in the number of patients transmit-
ted from different parts of the country, that though
the Asylum has received to the full extent that it was
capable of accommodating, and thus relieved the
How: of Industry from that number, still your Com-
mittee find that there is now in the latter establish-
ment a greater number than there was at the pettod
when the foundation of the Richmond Asylum was
undertaken. This pressure is every day increasing;
and as the majority of patients are sent from the re-
moter parts of the country, it is in vain to hope to
tlitniniih it, unless by the establishment of other Asy.
Isms, to be administered on the Plan which has been
already acted on in the capital.
' Besides the Asylum in Dublin, there are other es-
tablishments, and one particularly in the city of
Cork; with the conduct and government of the last-
'
mentioned, your Committee has every reason to be
satisfied. The success also which has attended the
mode of treatment adopted in the Richmond Asylum
has been very remarkable; and your Committee re-
fer with satisfaction to the testimony which they have
received from one of the Governors of that Institution.

An extract from the register ot the Asylum, which
is given in the Appendix, will thew how considerable
has been the proportion of cases in which restoration
has followed the treatment adopted ; at the same time
, it is obvious that. the general knowledxe of the suc•
cm of that treatment, and of the existence of an
establishment in the capital for the_reception of luna-
tics, supported by Parliamentary grants, has induced
the transmission to Dublin or numbers so great, that
the-Governors of the Asylum, and of the House ot
Industry also, have been obliged to give a public no-
tice, that it is impossible for [hero .to receive any more
patients from the country parts of Ireland.
Your Committee beg leave to call the attention of
the House to the detailed opinion expressed by the
Governors of the Richmond Asylum—that .the only
mode of effectual relict will be found in the forma-1
tion of District Asylums, exclusively appropriated
to the reception of the insane. They can hive no
doubt that the successful treatment of patients de-
' pends more on the adoption of a regular system of
moral treatment, than upon casual medical prescrip.
tion t and they are distinctly of opinion, that if dig ,
were content to advise as addition to be made to the
present County Hospitals only, it would be in vain to
hope that•each Coitity could provide an efficient su-
perintendence of its separate Establishment. A Bill
was introduced into the Houselot commons, in the
year 1804; framed on the rinciplp which is now re.

com'n-nded; and your Comn,ittire cannot but te;:•e
that h did not then meet the saitctico of the L-gisi• •
tore. Yam Committee are r,} ori • ion, th it in ad,
tin.; :o the Asylum wlsh:l'l;2s been founi.l.d -
lip., and that which I,as heen so sticcessfitlly csta
blished in the city if Cork, there should he tont. ~r
five District A syilims capable of containing each
leo to 15u lunatics. They conceive teat the
tsar {,lied most suitable for t'oe sites
nt rich nts may best be twined by tl:e
C;o.ernaien: ~t Irel too; that it would be ex,: '•licht
for t.at purpose, that a BM should be ontrodecej
into Parliament, empo,ce:ing 0:e Lord Lienten.tnt,
with rt..t .vivice of his Mljesty's Privy Ctunctl, to
divide the fo.tr 2::ovinces I, _l :;:d into rlietricss, ac-
cording to o,e locohry and the respective extent and
populition nt the contit,cs in be crrnpriLe.i in them ;
(I I th:lt t;xrcose of the A syl m for Lunatics to
ht.) est.ttslisi:Ld in each district, should be borne fly
d.stt:cts respectively.
Tie law !laving already recognized the principle,
th..t Pti sett:rat:tits should be niade at die several As-
sizes for the support of tl:e County Infirmaries, your
Committee are of opinion, o.at it is only carrying
into execution its Lei evelent iiisentions, to extend to
a class of the poorer population so wretched as that
into the state of which these inquiries have been di-
rected, the rebel and care which it is the duty of the
State to provide fur them, and they have no doubt
that nut only the expense will fall I.•ss heavily on the
respective counties, by adopting the principle they
recommend of distinct establishownts, but that it is
only in such that provision can be made of sufficient
extent, or tfat medical skill and care can be obtained
in the degree which the public ought to contribute to
the cure of malady, and A 01126011 of wretchedness.
Your Committee believing that theme are nt.toy
public boialings, such as barracks for troops, ai.J
places tor depositing nrilit.,ry stores, which are no
longer repaired to be s 9 OCCUp:t tl foe the
vice, doubt not that the liberality of his Majesty's
Guvernmert wili induce the appr.Triation of such
edifices to tie reception, of patients, if their loc .1 si-
tuation ant! other circumstances sarnild point them
out as suitable for the purpose. This suf.ject haviu
been under discussion in your Committee, they are
anxious nut to leave it untouched, though they have
no disfnet recornmeialation to offer; nor, with pro.
priety, could any flow from them.
With respect to the apportionment of the sum to
be levied rats each county within the respective dis-
tricts, your Committee are not prepared to present
ati) data to the House; but they recommend that
vie Lord Lieutenant in C...uncil should be empow-
ered to fix the contribrition, and also to nominate Go-
version of the respective Asylums, and a Board of
General Control aud Corresoundei.ce ; the members
01 which should not receive any salary or emolument
whatever.

Your Committee have observed with satisfaction,
the dicinterested labours of these who have superin-
tended the Asylums in the cities of Dublin and Cork;
old if they mere to go into any d 1411 of the • princi-
i;le, nn wl.ich the establishments which they prop,,se
might be hest administered, they would earnestly re-
commit., an entire conformity to the system laid
down and acted un in the Richmond Lunatic Asylum,
as that system appears to have been considered with
great anxiety, and acted on with signal success.
In what your Corminuee thus submit to the
House, they desire to be nude:stood as not wishing
to interfere with either of the etove.mentioned A.)
lums. The establishment in the metropolis has heen
supported, exclusively, by Parliamentary grants; rod
it would perhaps be only reasonable, if the Legislit-
; ture sliould continue to defray the expense of it on
its extended scale, that the county and city of Dublin
'should be called upon to contribute to the support et
any other Lunatic Asylum which may be founded in
the vicinity of the capital ; at least, your Committee
! may anticipate, that, by the tot oration of relivr
ceptacles for the insane, the number how removed to
the metropolis will be considerably and
that the expenditure which the Clown has bran A.
custotned to recommend to Parliament, both for the
present Luna,ie As) IA and Ihe House of lOustry
in Dublin, may be proportionally lessened al.o.
With respect to the county and city of Cork, the
expense wtich the Grand Juries have already pone
to, and the liberality and ptiblic spirit which they and
the nth:Ai:tants of Cot k have manifested, le.d your
Committee to be or opinion, that under the auspkes
:Red care under which it has hitherto Leen conducted,
the establishment now existing may best be left.
They are of opinion also, that it will be sufficient, in
the extent of its accommodatitu, for the future call.
on it. Your Com:mitt, e would however recommend,
that it should be subjected to the same vi.itation with
the Asylums to be formed in other districts. With
regard to their not being required to conti ibutc to the
support of any except their own rstablishrncnt, there
ate other grounds, arising front the raw* arid popu-
lation of the county and city of Colic; which confirm
your Committee in thaerecommendation.
It will be expedient still, howovr, ;n the event of
Patlianient acting on the suggestion which your
Committee have taken the liberty to offer, that there
should be provided in the Gettaal Lufirmai y in each
county of lieland two ur three cells for the tempo-
rary custody of 'milieu, previously to their trans-
mission to the District Asylnins.
Your Conant:tee refrain trinii suggesting any fur-
ther &tails, deeming that she ulterior arrangemettts
may be with more propriety •detertnined by Lae Exe-
cutive Government; deeming it unnecessary, also,
further to recommend to Parliament the considera-
tion of a subjecteo mategally importing the character
of the country, and so deeply interesting to humanity.
The follrivring are the witnesses L.:alarmed before the
Committees

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Colonel Cabbie, Right Hon. Sir George ilizzleran Hai, Bart.
Robert hiwyland Carew, k.sq. John Ltshe Duster, Esq. Right
Hon. Wnt. Cat) tighans P.lunitettl, Right ll4m. t.ir John
I pert,. Bug. Thomas itrte; Seq. Right linn.-lleoia Browt.e, James
4,10 it, gm. Et:ght Hon. John Ittr"Viell Barry. •liight Asa.
M‘nriee flugerrit, Right Hon. Augurtiue Pimp:raid.