Ii5' an coughs and colds. -^«<S"' 2. 



His visit being only paid once in the year, it is 

 probable the salubrious air of the island perfectly 

 eradicates the distemper, till it be again imported 

 afrelh in the same manner. 



jth. A surgeon of a man of war afsured me that 

 he had often remarked, that, although colds were fre- 

 quent in his fhip before it put to sea, the people 

 soon got well, and never were taken ill again till 

 they put again into port. The same observation 

 was made to me by many other seafaring people. 



A lieutenant of a man of war afsured me, that, on 

 returning from the Newfoundland station, where the 

 people had been remarkably healthy, and free from 

 colds, they were all coughing in the fir^t week after 

 the fnip's return to Englund. Neither do I learn 

 that the excefsive cold, of Greenland exposes our 

 filliers to that distemper. 



6th. Those who quit the country to pafs the win- 

 ter in our cities, particularly in London, are frequent- 

 ly seized with a cold immediately on their coming to 

 town, although much lefs exposed to the severity of 

 the winter than in the country. 



7th. May it not be inferred from hence that the 

 air in our towns, in the winter season, is infected 

 •with this contagion, perhaps in proportion to the 

 size of the towns, and the huddled manner in 

 which the inhabitants are crammed together in 

 them? 



8th. People ascribe their colds very commonly to 

 a cold blast they have got in coming from church, 

 playhouse, and other crowded afsemblies. May not 

 their colds be mere probably owing to the foul in- 



