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Tuat coming on within this period they are generally produc- 
tive of the moft fatal effe@s. And laftly, 
Tuart their caufes and cure are every where involved in ob- 
{curity. 
In each of thefe particulars, there is a ftriking analogy between 
the trifmus nafcentium or tetanus maxillz inferioris and the mzne- 
day fits. 
Ir is farther worthy of obfervation, that the diforders of adults, 
which are confined to particular: diftri@s or tra@s of country, 
more frequently arife. from fomething noxious infecting the 
atmofphere.of fuch places than from any other caufe; and how- 
ever difficult it may be to apply this doctrine to the cafes in 
queftion, it at leaft affords fome probable evidence towards the 
fuppofition, that they originate from fomewhat fimilar caufes. 
-Sucu are the obfervations which refletion and fome reading 
fuggefted to me on this fubje@, previous to the publication of the 
London Medical Tranfaétions in the year 1785. In this very 
excellent work, however, I met with “ An account of a fingular 
“ difeafe which prevailed among fome poor children maintained 
“ by the parith of St. James in Weftminfter;” which appears to 
me to throw much light on this obfcure.fubject: I hope to be 
excufed, therefore, for making fome extracts from this, valuable 
effay, for which the world is indebted to the accurate and learned 
Sir George Baker. 
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