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three minutes after ; which I attribute 
to the punch in which I gave it. This 
is the hotted and dried dimmer ever 
known in Maryland. There are great 
crops of corn and tobacco made ; but, 
through the extreme drynefs of the 
weather, the latter crops of neither 
will come to perfection. Many fprings 
are dried up, that were ever current 
before. Putrid bilious fevers are now 
very frequent in the country, and have 
raged for thefe fix weeks pad. So 
likewife has an hepatic dyfentery, 
which, I have been informed (for it 
has not come within my own prac- 
tice), has oftentimes been fo malignant, 
as not to yield to any medicines that 
could be thought of. 
The weather feafonable. The dyfente- 
ries, that have been fo fatal in many 
parts of the province, have reached 
my neighbourhood. The bilious fe- 
ver now is, and for fome time pad 
has been, very common in this coun- 
try. As the patients under my care 
had frequent large bilious ftools (after 
the ftimulus on the intedines was 
removed by opiates, and they voided 
no blood), imagining the fever and 
the flux owing to the fame caufe, 
only affeCting different parts, I gave 
Dr. Parfons’s powders, which I always 
ufed with fuccefs, and my patients 
L 2 got 
