HEALTH. 
the moft icky one. _ ope only spines with oe 
(On 
to the warmer climat t alfo to a 
eafes of the Aaaly; rea ii. chap. 1. The fame oibless 
vation qwas true, in regard to this country, and to Lon- 
d the larger towns in particular, durmg the 17th 
18th centuries; as we learn 
am, as well as from the pub- 
lications relating to the bills of mortality by major Graunt, 
who wrote about the middle of the former century, an 
obferved, that « the unhealthful feafon is the autumn,”’ 
(See his ag and Polit. Obf. on the Bills of Mortality, 
p. 56, edit. 5.) The obfervation continues to be appli- 
cable to the fouthern latitudes, becaufe, during the heat 
fe perfons who are neceflarily expofed to 
generation of mi 
the foil ieaiets or naturally 
cumftances a *¢ malaria,’’ or dad air, as it is saci larly 
eales ily a ear 
fes oe Sicily, p. 6. 
the fum- 
quence. 
‘Phe obfervation is ftill eu: one camps, duri 
ae 
mer and autumn | in confequence of the miafmata, which the: 
h Cel 
heats UL 
foul and moitt foil, which is neceffarily occafioned by the im- 
urities before mentioned, efpecially when a camp is for any 
of time ftationary. But in this temperate ep me 
where thefe fenabbs of the poifonous miafmata hav 
a —- the ohitesveeiod 
ealthinefs "7 
the feafons is ee re ered or, in aus words, t 
ES ie 
that the maf 
0 aun times is adtually produ of le tf 
mf he Beaks Jeafon was a centu 
whi nables us to account for the peste com- 
parative diminution of the annual mortality in London, as 
Dr. cnr igi fhew ge 
cite p. Fae cs sid that Ties proportio 
kg is the moft fatal month of the 12. gre Fak ae 
Ss were fital j in the following aoe accordit > eaten to the 
ions. 0 ‘chite, during feven: ; - 
i aan nae November, 
ary, Fe- 
saci re 
< —_ other : the latter cseuhe bes g er conftitus 
” and giving rife to fom ft general epidemic 
difeates while na - ormer oiocs chiefly fporadic, and lefs 
pr revalent. co mplai 
Sydenham, doy unable to deteét the conneétion of 
the epidemic pp oes of the atmofphere with its fen- 
that certain exhalations from 
sah! Plone soraln the air with deleteri~ 
ut thofe perfons undoubtedly erred ftill farther, who | attri~ 
buted the prevailin f the 
ayer brou ght from afar, and {preading er — 
fince t rom an impregna re- 
to generate miafmata from the ordinary foil, thefe epi- 
demic difeafes will continue to recur; 
the yellow fever 
will ftill be known in St. Domingo gre Surinam, and 
remittent fevers and.ague in the rfhes of Walcheren. 
> 
fo far agents we: 
fhall briefly attend at prefont, jbite 3 an account of the- 
iret effects. of heat to. its- proper head. Ty im: 
Medicine : 
ee dilaton whieh are moft t during” 
the cold. feafons, winter and fpring,, 8 which are -unj-- 
influence of 
ns 
scetie: ang ise te found, on referring to the lifts - if. 
eafes, ee ane obferved at the ace medical in! 
5 eae: 4008) And. when, in, addition te 
