ON CATARRH. 3II 



to boaft of greater than myfelf in the courfe of 

 twenty or thirty years) appears to me totally 

 paradoxical and groundlefs. Not that I mean 

 to deny the confequence in any cafe, but I be- 

 lieve it to be generally where the heat is too 

 foon fucceeded by cold, and there I apprehend 

 lies the deception. When cold is fucceeded by 

 a fudden warmth of temperature which is fteady 

 and permanent, no particular tendency to 

 rheums is ever obfervable. Colds, it is evident, 

 are mofl generally caught in cold and change- 

 able feafons, and inflammations of the head, 

 throat, or cheft, and in general, croupy affec- 

 tions, which obflinately defy all rernedies with 

 the wind in a cold and nipping quarter, will be 

 inftantly mitigated, and moll probably ceafe, 

 on a change of the wind, and a fucceflion of 

 warm weather. Can as much be predicated of 

 the converfe of the proportion ? 



In No. 5 of theHygeia, or Effays on Health, 

 by Dr. Beddoes, a work abounding in ufeful 

 and practical obfervation, are to be found cer- 

 tain opinions and aflertions, which the Doftor 

 will find it no very eafy taflv to fupport, He 

 obferves, " the opinion prevalent among the 

 *• faculty and the public was not only erroneous ■ 

 " concerning the.produ6lion of thefe difeafes, 

 " but direftly led to the mod dangerous ma- 

 " nagement. Within thefe few years the myf- 

 ^* tery, fo long hidden, was unveiled by the faga- 



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