the ufe of the open frefh Air they certainly in four or 
five days at fartheft recover'd thefe likewife, and were 
perfedly well ; fo tranfient and favourable Vr^as this Dif- 
eafe, that it feldom required the help of a Phyfician; 
and of a Thoufand ihac were (eized with it, f believe 
fcarce one dyed ; by the middle of AuguH following it 
wholly difappeared, fo that it had run its full Courfe 
through ail forts of People in feven Weeks time. 
'Twasvery Remarkable that m England zs well as this 
Kingdom, a ftort time before this General Fever, a fl ght 
Difeafe, but very univerfal, feizcd the Horfes too : In 
them it lliewed it felf by a great defluxion of Rheum 
from their Nofes and I was aflured by a Judicious Man, 
an Officer in the Army of Ireland, which was then drawn 
out, and encamp'd on the Curragh of Kildare, there were 
not Ten Horfes in a Regiment that had not this difor- 
der ; which ftiews the caufe of fpreading Diftempers to 
be fo prevalent, that it works not only on the finer and 
more delicate Compofition of Humane Bodies, but af- 
fefls even the more ftrong and groft frame of one of 
the moft robufl: Animal Produdlions in Nature; but this 
by the by. 
This Fever as we were fpeaking of, as our late Colds, 
fpread it felf all over England; whether it extended far- 
ther I did not learn, but it raged as generally in London^ 
as I was informed by a learned Phyfician from thence, 
as it did v^'ith us here in Duhlm, and with the fame con- 
courfa of Symptoms^ but with feme difference of time 
in relation to its firft appearance ; for whereas they be- 
gan to take notice of it at London about the middle cf 
May^ and it continued there tiil about the latter end of 
"june ; it did not fliew it felf here in Duhlin tiil the be- 
ginning of July, after it bad v;hoHy difappeared in ili?;?- 
don. Si) likewife our late general Colds, as I before men- 
tioned, were obferved to keep fuch a fort of Regular 
Piccedciice of Time, as to their rile and faii at London, 
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