5 2,0 on cot'ghs and coldi. Aug. 2. 



scorching heats in summer, and keen frost in winter, 

 •were it not for the very distemper in question, there is 

 no climate in which human life might be protracted to 

 a greater length, nor whose longevity would be attend- 

 ed with fewer drawbacks and inconveniencies. Hence 

 the importance of discovering the true cause, and con- 

 sequently the best method of curing, and even eradi- 

 cating, by degrees, this distemper from the catalogue 

 of Eritifti diseases, as the plague and leprosy have 

 been. 



20th. I would propose that the faculty fliould bend 

 fheir whole attention to observe whether this distem- 

 per be contagious or not : That a society and corres- 

 pondence be establiflied for the purpose : That the 

 result of the observations made over the whole island, 

 or perhaps over all Europe, be digested and publifli- 

 ed. 



2 1st. Should those observations afford rational 

 grounds for believing the distemper to be contagious, 

 I fhould theg. propose, that the Faculty ordered all 

 their patients to country quarters, as soon as unequi- 

 vocal symptoms of a cold appeared : That the great- 

 est attention fliould be paid to wafliing all the linen, 

 and airing, and even fumigating the woollen and cot- 

 'ton clothes of the convalescents before returning to 

 town. 



22d. For the poorer sort, by a small subscription, 

 they might be enabled to retire to cottager's houses 

 in th'i country, who, we may pi'esume, would not be 

 ■unwilling to receive, for payment, such guests ; and 

 iOn such occasions proper measures might be devised 



