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vein varlcofe in a great degree. A foreneis 
of the cheft, fucceeded by a cough and a 
fhortnefs of breath, had in this young man's 
cafe immediately fucceeded a violent and 
long-continued vomiting; to which caufe 
Dr. Watson W2.s inclined to attribute the 
origin of this dxfeafe (t). 
Part of a Letter to Dr. Huxham, giving 
fome account of the late cold weather, dated 
London J Feb. 14, 1767. By this it appears 
that the thermometer in London flood, when 
at the loweft, on the 1 9th, at eight in the 
morning, at i^^^k : and on the fame day, at 
Norwich, it was obferved as low as feven 
degrees (u). 
In 1768, Dr. Watson publifhed An 
Account of a Series of Experiments, in- 
" ftituted with a view of afcertaining the 
^* moft fuccefsful Method of inoculating 
*^ the SmalUpox.*' %\ Thefc experiments 
were defigned to prove whether there 
was any ffecific virtue in preparatory medi- 
cines : whether the difeafe was more fa- 
vourable when the matter was taken from 
(0 ?h'il Tranf. Vol. liv. p. 239— 245, 
(«) lb. Vol. lyii. p. 443* 
the 
