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DISEASES, &c. CLASS IV. 3. 4. 4. 



Tick at the beginning of wet weather, and ftill continues fo. 

 Js this owing to a fympathy of the mucous membrane of the ftom- 

 ach with the mechanical relaxation of the external cuticle by a 

 moifter atmofphere, as is feen in the corrugated cuticle of the 

 hands of wafher-women ? or does it fympathize with the mu- 

 cous membrane of the lungs, which muft be affe&ed along with 

 the mucus on its furface by the refpiration of a moifter atmof- 

 phere. 



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