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tion which they have reason to entertain, and 

 which, on that account, and many other considera- 

 tions, we ought, if possible, to gratify. 



One of the most striking and interesting pecu- 

 liarities of this chmate is the wonderful connection 

 that subsists between the paroxysms of fevers, and 

 certain relative positions of the sun and moon; 

 and as it is a peculiarity that leads to new ideas re- 

 specting the theory and treatment of the whole 

 class of febrile diseases, and suggests Desiderata 

 for meteorological research ; and therefore presents 

 to the physician and philosopher, one of the most 

 important phenomena in nature, I have chosen it 

 for the subject of this paper. 



I. Of the Number aird Importance of the Dis- 

 eases that belong to the Glass of Fevers. 



As the terms fevers^ febrile diseases, or class of 

 fevers, cannot convey to those who have not pro- 

 fessionally or regularly applied themselves to the 

 study of medicine, any just or adequate idea of the 

 great extent and magnitude of this subject, I have 

 thought it expedient to take this occasion to ob- 

 serve, for their information, that the class of fevers 

 or febrile diseases comprehends, not only the dis- 

 orders that always receive the appellation of fevers, 

 but a very great number of others that are never 

 distinguished by this name, although the fever 

 which accompanies them, constitutes the very es- 

 sence of the disease. Diseases of this desci'iption, of 

 which many are far more destructive to the human 

 race than those expressly called fevers, are nrost of 

 them included in the following catalogue. 



The pkgue, putrid sore-throats, epidemic ca- 

 tarrhs, dysenteries, pleurisies, peripneumonies, cho- 



