370 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



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Art. XXIX. 



ur4. Defcription of the American TelloiD Feier^ 



• in a .Letter- J rom Dr. John Lining Phy^ 



Jician at Charles-town in South Carolina, 



to Dr. Robert Whytt ProfeJJor of Me- 



dici?je in the Univerjity of Edinburgh *. 



SIR, Charlestown, December \/^. 175 j. 



" TN obedience to your defire, I have fent 

 " J- you the hiftory of the yellow fever as 

 " it appeared here in the year 1748, which, 

 " as far as I can remember, agreed in its 

 *'fymptoms with the fame difeafe, when it 

 *' vifited this town in former years. In this 

 " hiftory, I have confined myfelf to a faithful 

 •' narration of fads, and have avoided any 

 " phyfical inquiry into the caufes of the fe- 

 " veral fymptoms in this difeafe j as that 

 *' would have required more leifure than I 

 " am, at prefent, mafter of, and would per- 

 " haps have been lefs ufeful than a plain de- 

 " fcription. 



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* March 7. 1754. 



