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Too much attention cannot be paid to the bowels, and indeed all the secretions; it is the office of the practitioner to attend to nature in all her ways.

In many instances a blister on the chest will be proper, and this must never be omitted when the symptoms are unusually severe. I have frequently anointed the breast with this ointment, viz. R. Tart. emetic, 3i. ung. alb. camph. zi. m. &c. This really is an excellent appliplication, but take care it does not excoriate too much. Dress the parts with spermaceti ointment.

And I have found it necessary to order a gargle, when the throat is much obstructed with phlegm, of which the following is the form:

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This is to be often used, and will afford great assistance. I cannot recommend any form ot diet preferable to beef-tea, barley-water, with spir. æther. nitros. of linseed-tea, with slices of stick-liquorice, with spir. æther. nitros. I should order zi of it to a quart of these excellent remedies: a cupful may be taken occasionally during the day, when the pressure of the disease is relaxed, and the strengthening plan is followed, viz. when I administer that admirable medicine the cascarilla; it is right to allow the patient some solid diet, therefore the simplest and most easy of digestion is worthy of selection. Above all things let the patients avail themselves of the air and gentle exercise, and chearful society; and on no account induce them to applications that try the mental powers or bodily strength.

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OBSERVING in your Correspondent of last Month, a remakable prediction made by William Elder, and published in the Astrological Magazine for February 1793,

under the signature of W. E. of Lambeth, and which has recently been so exactly and literally fulfillled, it brought to my recollection that amongst my papers I had the nativity of the author of the prediction in his own hand writing, which I have sent for your insertion if you think proper to give it room.

I have not altered a single figure, but have added the longitnde, latitude and declination of the Georgium Sidus, as this planet in my humble opinion was partly the cause of his death.

The following are the accidents or events he wrote under for its rectification, and it appears he made the corrected time two minutes later than the estimate time, however as he died about the end of 1795, or early in 1796, I should for my own part judge he was born about seven or eight minutes sooner than the given time, so as to give for the cause of his death the moon to the sesqui quadrate of Mars in the Zodiac followed by the ascendant to the semiquartile of the moon, and at the time he died the ascendant arrived to the sesquiquadrate of the Georgium Sidus, but he was long afflicted with an asthmatic and phthisical complaint, and I remember he was very ill the Spring of 1795.

He says he had the jaundice in February 1764, attended with hypochondriæ, melancholy: he had then the ascendant to the opposition of Mercury and of the Sun to the mundane quartile of Saturn.

June 4th 1773 he had a violent fever, the ascendant then came to the opposition of Mars. In 1776 there was a death in his family, and in November of that year he was imprisoned; the moon then came to the opposition of Saturn converse and to his quartile in mundo by direct motion.

I should have observed that he was a public professor

of the astrological science, and obtained some celebrity, and wrote and made several calculations from the Astrologers Magazine, published in 1791, 1792 and 1793, and amongst other things the prediction respecting the Bourbon Family, which has been so exactly verified contrary to the opinion of most or all of those who have not had astrology for their guide, and as the verification of the prediction must stamp some degree of credit on the art and the artist. I think the nativity of a person so well known will not prove uninteresting to your astrological readers; and here I cannot help remarking that in all the nativities of the professors and private students of astrology, which I have yet seen, and the number is not a few: the moon has had some familiarity or aspect to Mars, and here the Moon has exactly the same declination as Mars, and is in sesquiquadrate of Saturn in the zodiac, and the native was certainly neither a healthy or fortunate man, though possessed of good abilities from Mercury being in Libra, not far from Venus his dispositor, and in trine with Jupiter, both in mundo, and in the Zodiac.

18, Mead's Row, Westminster Road, May 27th, 1814.

J. W.

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