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was neither vehement in its attacks nor dangerous, and 

 spread no farther than the square in which it began, 

 but within that space nobody easily escaped who was 

 exposed as much as six hours. 



In the year 1761 Dr. Bond observed a sort of in- 

 fluenza which followed a regular course almost 

 throughout America a fever with an itching of the 

 skin, accompanied by a cough and an acrid running at 

 the nose and eyes. It showed itself first in some of the 

 West India islands, then in the Bermudas ; in the spring 

 it appeared at Halifax, and thence came down to Bos- 

 ton, and so to the south, through Rhode Island, New 

 York, Philadelphia, Baltimore &c, visiting all the larger 

 towns along the coast without being affected by any 

 dissimilarities of wind or weather, appearing to stop 

 in North Carolina not before July of the same year. 

 It was remarked that at the same time horses were 

 attacked by a similar fever, with running at the nose 

 and eyes, but with happier results, since the smiths 

 made cures more quickly and surely than the physicians 

 were able to do. The cure for the horses was, they 

 were tied and burning sulphur held before the nose for 

 15 minutes, by which treatment they all got completely 

 rid of the disease. 



Among many other observations of this worthy man 

 the following account of an extraordinary worm is the 

 most astonishing. A horrible monster some 20 inches 

 long and on an average as thick as a man's wrist 

 worked for 18 months no small mischief in a woman's 

 body, ate its way through to the liver where it con- 

 trived a measurable cavity, continued through the duc- 

 tus hepaticus and the choledochus, taking leave shortly 

 after by the fundament whereupon the woman died 



