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to prevent any relaxation in quarantine laws, as well 

 as to disseminate truth generally for the good of others, 

 has been our motive for making a further publication 

 at this time; for we think there is too much reason 

 to fear, that the partial exemption from these diseases, 

 of latter years, may have a tendency to produce a dan- 

 gerous security amongst us." 



The proofs now published in support of their opi- 

 nions consist of nineteen communications, made by 

 physicians, and other well known characters in the 

 United-States, all tending to establish the peculiar 

 nature, foreign origin, and contagious quality of this 

 fever, with some account of the opinions hitherto ge- 

 nerally received on the subject. i 



Whatever may be the merits of the work, it is im- 

 portant, as it contains the opinions of the College. 

 The facts must speak, for themselves. 



On so interesting a subject, we believe it right to 

 give a short account of the different communications. 



The first is from James Pemberton, Esq., an aged 

 and respectable inhabitant of Philadelphia. He re- 

 lates, from his father's recollection, the foreign intro- 

 duction of the disease in 1699; also several subse- 

 quent instances thereof in 1740, 1747, 1760, and 1762, 

 with the opinions of its foreign origin, universally ad- 

 mitted, at those periods. 



