On the EffeBs of Oil hi the Bile of Serpents. 375 



If the fummer is dry, there will be little corn : difeafes will 

 alfo prevail ; but they will be more numerous if it is warm. 

 If it is moderately cold, the corn will be late 3 but there will 

 be a great deal of it j and the feafon will occafion few dif- 

 eafes. 



A fine autumn announces a winter during which winds 

 will prevail: if it is damp and rainy, it fpoils the grapes, in- 

 jures the fown fields, and threatens a fcarcity. If it be too 

 cold, or too warm, it produces many maladies. A long feve- 

 rity of the feaicns, either by winds, drought, dampnefs, heat 

 or cold, becomes exceedingly deftruftive to plants and ani- 

 mals. In general, there is a compenfation for rain or drought 

 between one feafon aixl another. A damp fpring or fummer 

 is commonlv followed by a fine autumn. If the winter is 

 rainy, the fpring will be dry ; and if the former is dry, the 

 latter will be damp. When the autumn is fine, the fprino- 

 will be rainy. That this alternation is in general verified 

 may be feen in a Journal carried on for forty years, and for- 

 merly edited by M. de Poleni. 



IX'. On the Effects of Oil in Cafes of the Bite of Serpents; 

 republijf-ed from the CharJeJhwn (^outh -Carolina) City 

 Gazette *. 



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Meflrs. Freneau and Paine, 



READ with pleafurc, in your paper of the 21ft of No- 

 \ ember, " fomc fliort directions for the cure of the plague," 

 onipofed from a fmall pamphlet lately publiflied by Count 

 iierchtold at Vienna, by the ufc olfiveet olive oil. 



To take off the (harp edge of misfortune, or to meliorate 

 the condition of man, is a godhke employment. Count 

 Eerchtold will be defervedly claffed by the philanthropift 

 jimong the benefactors to mankind. 



In great cities, particularly in London, a number of per- 



* From the Ami rican Medical Rcpofiiwy. 



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