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(inriiig tlio continuance of tlie last six plagues. The manner in wliicli 

 the plague, as a death-jiroduccr, obeyed the weather is striking, and 

 full of interest. It did so exactly in the way in which we have fleon 

 bowel complaints to be influenced by weather. Tlie curve of mor- 

 tality for the plague bears no resemblance whatever to that for typhus, 

 or indeed to any disease except bowel complaints. The fact that 

 the progress of deaths from plague in relation to weather resembles 

 so closely the corresponding progress of deaths from bowel complaints, 

 raises the question whetlier there may not be a closer alliance between 

 them than has been suspected. If we are correct in regarding such a 

 question as a fair outcome of this investigation of the relations of 

 weather and health, it is evident that such investigations may occasion- 

 ally point to a seat of morbid processes which have been cloaked by 

 prominent phenomena, apparently of a primary, but in reality of a 

 secondary character. 



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