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sances, as well as the introduction of pure water into 

 cities, will contribute, at least, to the comfort, if not 

 to the general health, of the inhabitants. 



With respect to a sncctss^xAmethodus medendi^ on 

 this head I must be silent, for I know of none. In- 

 deed, I believe the same may be said of many of the 

 other practitioners here, who are candid in their com- 

 munications. Every mode of practice recommended 

 from your quarter and elsewhere has been tried ; but 

 the disease has baffled the energies of medicine, in 

 every shape ; and when a recovery takes place, I be- 

 lieve it to be as much owing to the njires naturae medi- 

 catrices as to medical aid. 



I could expatiate more fully on the subject, but the 

 short limits of a letter prevent it, and I go on to the 

 other question in your letter : " What effects the late 

 hurricane had on the state of the yellow-fever here ? 

 If any persons supposed that the violence of the gale 

 would have dissipated the cause of the disease ?" But 

 after recollecting what was mentioned by Hevvatt, 

 which has been noticed in the beginning of this let- 

 ter, I was rather a sceptic in regard to that opinion, 

 and subsequent events proved that I was not wrong. 

 After allowing a certain period to elapse, during 

 which persons subjected to the disease might have 

 been supposed to contract the seminia thereof, it ap- 

 peared there were still new cases of it occurring, and 

 which continued so to do, during the first part of the 

 month of October, after which it gradually declined. 

 If I recollect right, one or two cases ended fatally on 



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