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8. The army, when it lay in tents, wa$ 

 always more lickly, than when it lay in the open 

 air: it was always more healthy, when kept in 

 motion, than when it lay in an encampment. 



.9. Militia officers, and foldiers, who enjoyed 

 health during a campaign, were often feized with 

 fevers upon their return to the Vita Mollis^ at 

 t)ieir refpedive homes. There was one inftancc 

 of a militia captain, who was feized with con- 

 vulfions the firfl: night he lay on a feather bed, 

 after lying feveral months on a matrafs and on 

 the ground. The fever was produced by the 

 fudden change in the manntr of fle^^ping, living, 

 &c. It was prevented, in many cafes, by the 

 perfon lying, for a few nights after his return 

 £0 his family, on a blanket before the fire. 



10. I met with feveral inftances of bubos, and 

 ulcers in the throat, as defcrjbed by Dr. Don. 

 Monro: they were millaken by fome of the 

 junior furgeons for venereal fores, but they 

 yielded to the common remedies of putrid fevers. 



J I. Thofe patients in putrid fevers, who had 

 large ulcers, and even mortifications on their 

 backs or limbs, generally recovered. 



12. There were many inftances of patients 

 in putrid fevers who, without any apparent 

 fymptoms of diflolution, fuddenly fell down 

 dead, upon being moved ; this was mor« 

 efpecially the cafe, when they arofe to go to 

 ftool. 



13. Thcfe 



