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fufficiently ferious to difcourage fuch hazardous ex- 

 periments. It is not uncommon for a violent fever 

 to be the confequence, which is frequently attended 

 with inflammation of the flomach or bowels ; both 

 which are diforders of the mod dangerous nature. 

 But mould they efcape incurring any acute com- 

 plaint, it is common for them to be affected with a 

 fenfe of weight and ficknefs at the ftomach, which 

 continues feveral weeks, and is at laft relieved by 

 vomiting; this, however, does not put a period to 

 the complaint, as it is, generally followed by an 

 itching eruption on the (kin in blotches, in various 

 parts of the body, which proves to be the leprofy — 

 a loathfome and filthy difeafe, and very difficult 

 of cure ! 



1 have had an opportunity of feeing at the Bath 

 Hofpital, a great number of people thus afflidted, 

 and am fatisfied that they all, without exception, 

 owed their difeafe to the application of cold, in fome 

 form or other, to the body when in a heated date. 



Labouring perfons are very apt, when they leave 

 off any work in which they have been much heated, 

 to remain fome time at reft in the open air before 

 they put on their clothes. This is a very impru- 

 dent practice, and frequently produces bad effects, 

 efpecially in bringing on coughs, and other diforders 



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