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Calculations; and if they will be of any Service to 
Mankind, of which you are the mod proper judge, 
fhall then obtain all I had in View, in entering upon 
the Courfe. I am, 
SIR , 
Tour much obliged , 
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and very humble Servant , 
John Lining. 
South- Carolina, Charles- 
S I R, Town, April 1 1 . 1 74 1 • 
Read May ip. \T EAR Three Months ago, I fent you 
‘743- JL%I One Table of my Statical Experi- 
ments, as a Specimen, praying your Opinion of the 
Method, and if they promifed any Helps towards the 
Advancement of the Medical Art. I will not take 
up your Time, in giving you the Reafons which firft 
induced me to undertake a Courfe of fuch trouble- 
fome Experiments for One whole Year, which I have 
now finifhed: However, I prefume, that a Courfe of 
fuch Experiments, made in a Clime where theExcur- 
lions from Heat and Cold, in the different Seafons, 
are very great, and the Tranfitions often furprifingly 
fudden, thefe Experiments, I fay, made almofl: 
every Day through the Year, wherein the Days 
Urine and Perfpiration are diflinguifhed from the 
Night's, may be of lome Ufein illuftrating the Na- 
ture and predifponent Caufes of Epidemic Difeafes, 
which fo regularly return at dated Seafons; and 
cfpccially as nothing, I know of, is extant of that 
Na- 
