C 77 3 
Mercury . 
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Dec. 
63 
20 times in 24 hours : fometimes 
blood in a large proportion was mixed 
with their dools ; but the mod trou- 
blefome fymptom was a violent tenef- 
mus. The midrefs took two dofes of 
Dr. Parfons’s powder, and the maid 
as many of Dr. James’s. At night the 
midrefs took an anodyne draught, and 
the maid gr. 8 pihilce matthcci. The 
next day they took fome adringent 
powders, at night their anodyne, and 
the day following both were well. 
The fmall-pox and fwine-pox are now 
about the country. 
People in general very healthy. The 
fmall-pox fpreads but flowly, and is. 
very favourable. 
Jan: 
6 5 
* 757 - 
10 
Many fudden alterations, as to heat and 
cold, have been in tin's month : but 
the mod remarkable I have ever ob- 
ferved, was the lad day of this month, 
when the 2 was up at 6 f, and the 
next day, Feb. 1. when it was down 
at 28°, about the fame hour in the 
dav. 
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The people of Maryland were af- 
flidted lad year with fcarce any com- 
plaints which were not attended more 
or lefs with bilious fymptoms ; and as 
the year advanced, the weather being 
unufually hot, fuch fymptoms grew 
more 
