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of old age! This confideration is the more important, as the amiable 
affections of the human foul are not lefs exprefled by the traits and mo- 
tions of the lips, than by the beaming eye. . I have not mentioned the 
pains of tooth-ach, becaufe they are not more common or violent in 
this country than in fome others, where lofs of teeth is rare; many per- 
fons here lofing their teeth without-much pain, as.I have myfelf experi-°- 
enced. 
The complaint of catching cold is heard almoft every day, and in every 
company. ‘This extraordinary diforder, little known in fome countries, - 
is alfo very common in England... An eminent phyfician of that country 
faid that “colds kill more people than the plague”... Indeed many fevere 
diforders originate from it among us: it is probably often the fource of 
the before mentioned’ chronic difeafes. . When it does not produce fuch 
funeft effects, it is neverthelefs a ferious evil; being attended-with lofs 
of appetite, hoarfenefs, fore eyes, _head-ach, pains and fwellings in the 
face, tooth and ear-ach, rheums, liftlefs langour and lownels of fpirits : 
wherefore Shen/ione had fome reafon to call this uneafinels a checked perfpi- 
ration. Great numbers in the United States experience more or lefs 
thefe fymptoms, and are in fome degree valetudinarians for one third of 
the year. -. 
Eminent medical authors have indeed treated of thefe diftempers 
and fome American phyficians deferve applaufe for their theoretical and - 
practical exertions. Still, it is devoutly to be wifhed that thefe national 
evils may draw a more pointed attention. The limits of my defign 
permit enly a few additional remarks. . 
Thefe ditempers frequently co-exiftinthe moft unhealthy parts of the 
country ; and not feldom-affliG individuals with united force. Compaf- 
fion for fuffering fellow citizens ought inthis cafe to animate our invefti- 
gation of thofe general and complicated local caufes. . The extreme va- 
riablenefs..of the weather is univerfally deemed a principal and general 
caufe of colds, and-of the diforders by them produced; the fall and rife 
of. the thermometer by 20 a 30: degrees within lefs than four and twenty 
hours, difturbing the ftrongeft conftitutions, and ruining the weak. . A 
mit important defideratum is therefore the art of hardening the bodily 
fyftem againft thefe violent impreffions; or,-in other words, accommo- 
dating it tothe climate. _ The general ftamina of ftrength fupport it under 
the excefles of both cold and heat. The latter is, however, the moft 
oppreiiye as we can lefs elude it by artificial conveniencies. We fufter 
efpecially 
