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suggested to me the propriety of trying its effects. I 

 found it to form an agreeable mucilaginous drink, and 

 have used it myself, during the whole of the season. 

 Those physicians to whom I have made mention of its 

 apparent good effects, after recommending it them- 

 selves to their patients, have told me that they thought 

 it an excellent drink in fevers, and preferable to any in 

 common practice. I am so well persuaded of deriving 

 benefit from it, that I shall continue to use it, until I 

 shall think otherwise. 



Supplementary Answer to Query 15. 



The appearance of the skin, on the first attack of 

 the disease, is sometimes natural, but often of an orange 

 colour. This occurrence generally disappears as the 

 disease advances, especially where the depleting means 

 have been freely used. I know of but few cases in 

 which the skin was yellow after death. This appear- 

 ance may be said to take place once almost every 

 year, in some part of the Military Tract. It happened 

 in the case of Elijah Laurence, who died in the fall of 

 1800. It has occurred once this year in the town of 

 Scipio, and I have heard of three or four other cases, in 

 different parts of this and Cayuga county, since my re- 

 sidence in the western country. 



There is one symptom which has appeared to distin- 

 guish the epidemic of 1800. Glandular swellings were 

 frequently met with. They generally discharged a 

 good pus, and this was a favourable symptom. I had 

 one patient, in the period last mentioned; a son of C, 



