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to its ulcerated ftate. Paronychia, or Whitlow, 

 of various kinds, very frequent, and not feldom 

 attended with dangerous confequences. Congeftio 

 Hyemalis^ a fpecies of Catarrh extremely common, 

 and the fource of worfe diifeafes, ufually arifing 

 from fudden tranfitions from heat to cold, and 

 incautious expofure to the latter: obfervations 

 on this diforder from the Iter Wefiro-gothicum of 

 LiNN^us. Coughs, univerfal, fometimes to the 

 entire difturbance of all public affemblies. Fleu- 

 rifles, efpecially among the country people, who 

 indulge in ftrong liquors. Peripneumonies, parti- 

 cularly confidered as endemic with the inhabi- 

 tants about the copper mines. The trad con- 

 cludes with a compendious view of the efFeds of 

 cold, and the phasnomena of winter feafon, in a 

 fet of corollaries, and a mention of the hard win- 

 ters in in 1586, 1665, 1684, 1709,1740, 

 1752. In the latter, the loweft point of the ther- 

 mometer, at Upfal, was 3 1 of Celfius^s^ equal to 

 about 24 below o in Fahrenheit. 



38. Odores Medicamentorum. a. Wahlin. 

 1752. 



An ingenious illuftration of the dodrine, which 

 teaches, that thofe different fenfations excited in 

 the organs of fmell by different odours, will lead 

 to the explanation of the qualities inherent in fuch 

 bodies ; and that from thence they may be clalTed, 

 and their general effedls on the human body de- 

 duced. After a train of general explanatory and 

 ghyfiological obfervations, Mr. Wahlin introduces 



