xxxit. Proceedings of the Society. 



ihe organs of respir8iior,and ihus giving rise lo Coughs.Catarrhi, 

 Pleurisies, etc. or on the limbs and tbeir articulations, under 

 the form of Rheumatism, Sciatica, etc. 



» The questions addressed by your Secretary to the Medical 

 Society appeared to him the more important to lesolve tor this 

 reason, that a subject bearing no inconsiderable analogy to that 

 >vhich was then engrossing his attention, had been treatesi in 

 i Chamber's Edinburgh Journal, t so as to excite public interest 

 in the extreme, by the remarkable observations it contains. 



71 The article was published under the title of «Dry Fogs.* 



i> These observations seem lo prove to a certainty, the rela- 

 tions which exist between organic beings in general and Ihe 

 atmospherical conditions in which Ihey live, grow and feel ; 

 and several cases mentioned in that paper of epidemical diseases 

 having taken place in different parts of the globe, after great per- 

 turbations in the air, leave no doubt as regards the influence 

 of the atmospherical agents and their combinations upon the 

 health of men, animals, and plaDts,eiiher simultaneously.or at: 

 more or less remote intervals 



D The Letter of your Secretary was dated November, 48i8. 



» A few days after he received in answer to it, a Letter from 

 the Medical Society, which had appointed a Committee lo 

 examine the questions addressed to it by your Secretary. 



J For these two years, says the Committee, no particular 

 » alteration has been observed in man and inferior animals, 



> which may be traced to any atmospherical influence bui 

 » that which usually results from the more or less regular 



> change of the seasons. 



D If we except the hooping-cough which took place about 

 I two years and a half ago,the diseases en the organs of respiri- 

 i tion have not been more frequent than usual ; as to the hoop- 

 » iog-cougb, it appears with a certain regularity every three or 

 » four years.wilhout any hitherto ascertained causes. 



« The Commiiiee think ihcy ought lo affirm slill more expli-« 



