22 Sketch of Bristol, £V. 



under my preceptor's notice, it terminated favourably. 

 Gentle purges, blisters, camphor, opium, &.c, were 

 the remedies he employed. 



The winter diseases are pneumonia, rheumatism, 

 different forms of cvnanche, &c. Several cases of 

 cvnanche trachealis occurred this season (1804), so 

 late as July. Dysentery has been the predominating 

 disease, during the present season. The first cases 

 occurred in the first week of July. Many of the first 

 patients had a diarrhoea for several days, before either 

 pain or fever made their appearance. Some had nei- 

 ther of the last-mentioned symptoms. Occasionally, 

 the disease was ushered in with vomiting ; and it was 

 not unusual for patients to be costive for several days, 

 with pain before the lax appeared. The fever and 

 pain were seldom so severe as I had seen them in 

 former years. It was generally confined to children. 

 Tenesmus was a troublesome symptom. The treat- 

 ment differed little from that of 1799 and 1800. 

 Kino and other astringents were, I think, used with 

 more safety, as the disease occasionally ran again into 

 diarrhoea. There have been a few cases of remitting 

 fever. Adults were more generally affected. 



VI. Supplement to the Preceding Paper. 



AS supplementary, in part, to the preceding 

 paper, I shall introduce, in this place, a notice of an 

 epidemic disease, which prevailed in the neighbour- 

 hood of Bristol, many years ago. 



