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ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



I. 



Observations respecting the rewarhahle Effects of 

 Sol-Lunar Influence in the Fevers 0/ India; 

 with the Scheme of on Astronomical Ephemerisyc?r 

 the puj'poses 0/ Medicine gay/ Meteorology. 



BY FRANCIS BALFOUR, ESQ. M. D.* 



WHILST the interesting and successful re- 

 searches of the Asiatic Society are excit- 

 ing the cariosity and expectation of the learned in 

 every quarter of the world, it is natural for those 

 who are prosecuting discoveries in medicine and 

 meteorology to look towards India, for some in- 

 formation respecting the nature and peculiarities 

 of the chmate in which we live. Possessing, as 

 we do, the peculiar advantages of a tropical situa- 

 tion, with a more extensive field, and greater con- 

 veniency for making observations than any Euro- 

 pean nation ever enjoyed before, it is an expecta- 



* Mr. Balfour is the author of the Paper in the Second Vo- 

 lume of the Asiatic Resedrches, entitle:! a "Treatise on the iu- 

 " tiodiiciion of the Arabic into the Persian, and language of 

 " Hindostan." 



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