PHYSIC A L A-ND LITERARY. S7i 



" I wrote this hiftory, fo far as it relates 

 « to the fymptoms and prognoftics in the year 

 *' 1748, when we had the difeafe laft in 

 ^' this place j intending afterwards,;, if it re- 

 " turned, to add, from further experience, 

 *« the method of cure, and likeways an ac- 

 *' count of any other fymptoms which might 

 ■*' attend it j but, as no fuch opportunity 

 "has offered, I muft now omit that' part. 

 " However, I hope the defcription which I 

 *' have given of this dreadful malady, which 

 *' fo frequently rages like the plague in the 

 " fouthern parts of America, is fo full, that 

 " a phyfician may, from thence,, not only 

 *' form a. true judgment of its nature, , but 

 *' likeways be able to deduce and communi- 

 " cate fome more certain method of -cur?, 

 " than has perhaps hitherto been ufed.f' ; - 

 " I am forry I could not give a fuller 

 " account of the diffedions of thofe whp 

 *' died of this difeafe, having unfortunately 

 *' loft my notes taken from thofe diffedions, 



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