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disorders : such as the influenza, which, a few years ago, took 

 a range for some miles round London, but was also prevalent 

 in other parts of the country. 



Since writing the above, I have met with some curious 

 observations on the influence of climates, (which correspond, 

 in some measure, with what I have advanced,) in a French 

 work entitled Rapports du Physique et du Moral de I'Homme, 

 par P. J. G. Cabanis, 2d edit. Paris, 1805. And I have 

 collected a great index of reference to writers on Periodical 

 and other Atmospheric Diseases, in my Observations on the 

 Periodical and Casual Influence of the Atmosphere, &c. &c. 

 London, 181 7- And in the Inquiry into the Cause and 

 Mitigation of Pestilential Fever, &c. 8vo. London, 1813. 



