[ 4?4 3 
A very remarkable Fall of the Barometer happen'd 
between Feb. the 2d and the 9th, when the Mercury 
Inches. Inches. 
defeended from 30. 3. to 28. 9. 
Our Author has very often obferved a very fudden 
fall of the Mercury, without any confiderable Change 
ici the Face of the Atmofphere; but upon a more 
ftridt Inquiry, he found there had been either great 
Rain or Thunder fomewhere in the Neighbourhood ; 
to which Place the ambient Air rufh'd fuddenly, in 
order to reftore the c/ Equilibrium . 
As inflammatory Difeafes of the Bread were fatal 
this Year, the Author takes Occafion, in treating of 
them, to give the diftindtive Characteriftics of the 
true Pleurify and Peripneumony, and confcquently 
of the frequent Combination of both, or Pleuro - 
P eripneumony $ with their different Methods of Cure. 
1732. 
Inches. 
Deci. 
The Total of Rain was ..... 
33 . 
096. 
Whereof in QEtober fell 
6 . 
34 3 '* 
in Auguji but .... 
. O* 
362. 
Inches. 
Mercury higheft November 25. 30. 
4 - 
lowed October 14. 28. 
7 . 
This Year contains excellent practical Obfervations 
On the Whooping Cough of Children.. 
' 
X 733 * 
Inches. 
Deci. 
Total of Rain \ . . . 1 I-'. 
29. 
8 84.* 
Of which in ’December alone . . . 
4 - 
688. 
in ‘July but 
O. 
772. 
In 
