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The influenza, which, since my last report, has so universally prevailed 

 among the high and low, rich and poor, first made its appearance in Malvern 

 about the 15th of January — a week or ten days later than in London— and 

 prevailed extensively among all classes, children excepted. The disease 

 seemed to be similar in every respect to that which appeared in 1803, to 

 which it was allied also by its general diffusion throughout the whole king- 

 dom ; in 1831, and again in 1833, the same disorder appeared in a minor de- 

 gree. This is not the place to enter into any detail as to symptoms, treat- 

 ment, mortality, &c. ; I may, however, remark that it appears extremely 

 difficult to trace its origin to any of those atmospheric phenomena indicated 

 either by the barometer, thermometer, or hygrometer. The vicissitudes of 

 temperature in December and January were considerable, but not peculiar ,• 

 whilst the pressure and hygrometric conditions of the air were by no means 

 remarkable in any respect. That extraneous impregnations exist, hitherto 

 undetected by chemical analysis, and to which epiaemic diseases — such as 

 that which has just visited us — owe their origin and progress, there can be 

 no doubt; the atmosphere, even when very dry, is very often extremely 

 misty and hazy, and this mist or haze cannot, under such circumstances, be 

 attributed to vapour — it must be something else; and we have only to col- 

 lect a sufficient quantity of it, and to examine minutely into its nature, in 

 order to become acquainted with its effects upon the human frame. To do 

 this an immensely larger quantity of air must be searched than any yet sub- 



