INFLUENCE IN THE FEVERS OF INDIA, &C. 15 



rise at a medium two feet higher than at the time 

 of the solstices *. This discovery is agreeable to 

 the general law of attraction ; and it is not to be 

 supposed that the influence of the sun and moon 

 under the tropics, acts with a force inferior to that 

 which produces this difference in the height of the 

 tides on the northern shores of Europe. 



How far sol lunar influence affects the fevers of 

 the higher latitudes of the globe, is a question that 

 does not come within the scope of this enquiry. 

 The annexed table, however, extracted from Dr. 

 CuRRiE, of Liverpool's mcA\c-di\ reports on the ef- 

 fects of the water, &c. page 230, points so strongly 

 to this subject ; and is so immediately connected 

 with the present article, that I could not resist the 

 temptation of giving it a place ; conceiving that it 

 may become a stronger inducement to observation 

 than any admonition or exhortation that I could 

 offer. 



Dr. Currie's table was formed by him to shew 

 the number of typhus fevers admitted into the 

 Liverpool dispensary in the course of seventeen 

 years : and the admissions in that space of time 

 amounted to no less than 48,36/. 



The great majority of patients admitted in the 

 months of the spring and autumn, which I have 

 denominated the equinoctial periods, compared 

 with those admitted in the months of summer and 

 winter, which I have called the inter-equinoctiai 

 intervals, cannot fail to attract the notice of every 

 observer, 



♦ Astronomie par Jerome Le Francais La Lande, Edi* 

 tion Tioisieme Revue et Augment^e, Tome II f, page 525. 



