of the people, is in great vogue in Switzerland. If this tune
or piece of music is played among the Swiss in any foreign country, it
tends strongly to recall their affections for their native soil, and
their desire of returning, and to induce the desire called nostalgia
consequent on their disappointment. The effects of this musical
composition is so powerful, that it is forbidden to be repeated in the
French camp on pain of death, it having at one period had the effect of
producing a mutiny among the Swiss soldiers, at that time in the employ
of the French king.

Predictions of death, whether supposed to be supernatural, or emanating
from human authority, have often, in consequence of the poisonous
effects of fear, been punctually fulfilled. The anecdote is well
attested, of the licentious Lord Littleton, that he expired at the exact
stroke of the clock, which in a dream or vision, he had been forewarned
would be the signal of his departure. In Lesanky's voyage round the
world, there is an account of a religious sect in the Sandwich Islands,
who arrogate to themselves the power of praying people to death. Whoever
incurs their displeasure, receives notice that the homicide litany is
about to begin, and such are the effects of the imagination, that the
very notice is frequently sufficient with these people to produce the
effect.

Thousands of other instances might be cited, illustrative of the fatal
effects of inordinate indulgence in passion.

[1] A cleverly conducted work containing more popular information
on Medicine, Surgery, and what are termed the collateral sciences,
than we are accustomed to find in a "professional" journal.

[2] Rammazini.

[3] Preface de Narcisse Oeuvres, Diverses, t. l. v. 172.

[4] Pathol. lib. 3. cap. 2. Oper. Omm. p. 406.

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RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS.

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ANCIENT BRIDEWELL.[5]

The following curious facts, respecting the state of the metropolis
during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, are extracted from the weekly
reports made by William Fletewood, Recorder of London, to Lord
Burghley:--

"My singuler good Lord, uppon Thursdaye, at even, her Majistie, in her
coache, nere Islyngton, taking of the air, her Highnes was environed
with a nosmber of roogs. One Mr. Stone, a foteman, cam in all hast to
my Lord Maior, and after to me, and told us of the same. I dyd