85. 

 THE BEE, 



OR 



XirERARY WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, 



FOR 



Wednesday, August 2. 1794. 



ESSAY ON COUGHS AND COLDS. 



For the Bee, 

 This distemper is called by foreigners the Engli(h 

 plague. It consists with my knowledge, that foreign- 

 ers are sr)ine times prevented from visiting our island, 

 from a dread of catching what they call la consomp- 

 tion Angloise. I have known this dread operate u- 

 pon foreign gentlemen, otherwise sufficiently manly, 

 and very desirous of paying us a visit. 



The general belief on the continent is, that a cough 

 is a contagious distemper. There is a story at Rome 

 cfan Italian nobleman, and all his family, having died 

 of a consumption, which they were supposed to have 

 caught by using an Englilh gentleman's post chaise. 

 sold after his dying of this disease. 



It is not long since a friend of mine, whom the 

 pliysicians of London advised to sail for health, was 

 refused admittance into the city of Cadiz. Nay, 

 after leave had been obtained from the Office of Health, 

 there was but one innkeeper in that town (an Irilh- 

 iTian,) who would admit him into his hotel ; and that 

 only, after agreeing for the value of aU the furniture 



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