Mr. _Attorney General_.—“The few sentences that your lordship has pronounced now, are of the last importance to the community.” Mr. _Justice Bayley_.—“Mr. _Taunton_ should intimate that he is ready to attend those persons at their own houses.” Mr. _Pollock_.—“I understand that is part of the notice, that he is willing to attend such patients at their own houses.” Footnote 147: The rise, progress, decline, and cessation, of particular diseases, forms a curious and useful study to the medical jurist: since the laws and habits of mankind will thereby be found to possess more considerable influence on the health and physical strength of a people, than is generally supposed. See _Observations on the Increase and Decrease of different Diseases, by W. Heberden, jun. M.D. F.R.S. London_ 1801. The gradual decline of the Dysentery in this country is a remarkable proof of the benefits which have ensued from our improvements with respect to diet, cleanliness, and ventilation. The long list of chronic diseases with which our nosology abounds is totally unknown to barbarous nations, and seem to be the natural consequences of arts and civilization; as these again shoot up into luxury and intemperance, their effects may well be expected to become proportionally more conspicuous. Dr. _Rush_ of Philadelphia has reported, with respect to the uncultivated nations of North America, that Fevers, Inflammations, and Dysenteries make up the sum of their complaints, and he remarks, in particular, that after much inquiry, he had not been able to find a single instance of madness, melancholy, or fatuity among them. (_Medical Enquiries and Observations by B. M. Rush, vol. 1. p. 25._) In a subsequent part of his work, the same author, speaking of the pulmonary consumption, declares it to be unknown among the Indians of North America (_vol. 1. p. 159_). Mr. _Park_, in his account of the interior of Africa, says, that notwithstanding longevity is uncommon among the Negroes, their diseases appear to be but few; fever and fluxes being the most common, and the most fatal. Footnote 148: The curious reader will not be at a loss to trace the ancient patronage and jurisdiction of the Bishop of Winchester; suppressed among other ecclesiastical establishments, by _Henry_ the 8th. Footnote 149: _See part 3._ No sufficient provision is yet made for the speedy removal of prisoners from infected jails; the case hereafter quoted shows that the Crown has an authority on this subject. Footnote 150: During the progress of this work we have seen a fatal instance of a child sacrificed to the dirty and penurious system of one of the _very_ cheap schools of the north of England. The author was called in to his assistance on the child’s arrival in town, but he expired a few hours afterwards. Footnote 151: