impressions through the medium of the other senses, as when SCREECHES and YELLS are made in an apartment painted _black_ and _red_, or _glaring white_, every man must be painfully affected: the maniacal patient, _however torpid_, _must_ be roused: or, on the contrary, where an opposite state obtains, extreme sensibility and impatience of powerful impression, there _much may be expected_ from placing the patient in an _airy room_, surrounded with _flowers breathing odours_, the walls and furniture _coloured green_, and the air agitated by undulations of the softest harmony. _Much_ of this may appear FANCIFUL and RIDICULOUS, but the _enquiring_ practitioner _will_ find, on making the experiment, it deserves his _serious_ attention; and no mean is to be despised that is capable of arresting the attention, changing the trains of thought, interesting the affections, removing or diminishing painful sensations, and ultimately rendering both mind and body sensible to impressions, and _all this has been effected by music_. Every individual is not capable of accurately estimating the _extensive powers_ of this agent; but I would ask the _musical amateur_, or the _experienced professor_, if he have not frequently felt sensations the most _exquisite_ and _indescribable_; if he have not experienced the whole frame _trilling_ with _inexpressible delight_, when the _tide_ of full harmony has FLOWN on his ear, and the most _wretched miserable_ feeling, UNIVERSAL HORRIPILATIO and CUTIS ANSERINA from the _grating crash_ of discord? All the varied sensations from transport to disgust, have been occasioned by the different movements in one piece of music. I might _amuse_ my readers with a great variety of instances where persons have been very singularly affected by means of music, and where its powers have extended to the _brute creation_, but this I purposely avoid." FINIS. Printed by G. HAYDEN,} Brydges Street, Covent Garden.} FOOTNOTES: [1] The choice of these words must be left to the taste of the reader, Dr. Johnson not having thought proper to admit them into his dictionary. [2] Some doubts are entertained whether Dr. Boord was physician to King Henry the eighth, but he was certainly a fellow of the College. [3] Apprehension of sensations. This is perhaps only an endeavour to explain the thing, _by_ the thing, or producing words of similar import with different sounds. Junius, speaking of the word hand (as derived from the gothic Handus) says, "Quidam olim deduxerunt vocabulum ab antiquo verbo HENDO, _Capio_: unde PREHENDO, APPREHENDO, &c."--_Gothicum Glossarium_, p. 188. Professor Ihre conceives it equally probable that the old latin word _hendo_ may have had a northern origin. "Id vero non possum, quin addam, oppido mihi probabile fieri, ipsammet hanc vocem latio olim peregrinam non fuisse, quod quippe augurar ex derivato HENDO, capio, unde prehendo cum derivatis pullularunt."--_Glossarium Sviogothicum. tom. i. p. 778._