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A moifl chilly atmofphcre at the fetting-In of the Norths, produces 

 agues and intermittents, fometimes remittents, on the South fide. 



In proportion as the thermometer rifes very high, and fettles for 

 any confulerable time at fuch a height, fevers, and other inflamma- 

 tory difordcrf, may bs expeded to be chiefly prevalent. 



In I "64, dry hot weather continued on the South fide from January 

 to June. I^Iultitudes of cattle perifhed at the penns in the neigh- 

 bourhood, and dropped in the roads for want of fodder. It is im- 

 pofiible to conceive the annoyance which travelers fuffered from the 

 ilench of their carcafles lying unburied, till they were devoured by 

 the crov/s and dogs. A very malignant fort of fmall-pox fucceeded 

 in Spanidi Town, which fwept off numbers of the Negroes. The 

 thermometer in June was moftly at 87 and 8S. The diforder raged 

 with greatefl: fatality after the falling of a few flight fliowers. 



The coming in of dry warm weather after moifl; and warm, 

 caufes a free perfpiration without inflaming the body; diverts the 

 flux of humours from the bowels to the fl^in, and abates diarrhoeas, 

 ■dyfenteries, Cfc. 



An unufually dry cool air braces the fibres here too fuddenly, and 

 difpofes to fpalms. 



Long-continued drynefs and heat, having the like eftedl on the 

 fibres, and rendering them too rigid, produce inflammatory fym- 

 ptoms in the blood, from flight accidental caufes, as being over- 

 heated with exercife or hard drinking, and fuddenly taking cold, 

 getting wet, or in any other way Itopping perfpiration, and fo im- 

 prifoning thofe humours which ought to have been eliminated by 

 the pores. 



Negroes are in general the firfl: feized with thofe difliempers which 

 •become epidemic, except they are of the putrid clafs. On the 

 fetting-in of hard rains after a long drought, they fliould be reftrained 

 as much as poflible from indulging in fruits and roots too liberally; 

 thefe aliments, at fuch times, having abforbed the water very plen- 

 tifully, are crude and unwholelbme. Such fugacious fubftances, 

 together with indifferent cloathing, and expofurc to the inclemen- 

 cies of weather, fljp perfpiration, tranflate the humours upon their 

 bowels, and there generate violent colics, and fometimes mortal 

 diarrhceas. 



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