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After a few days, obferving fome cough remain, 
it feemed advifeable to give two or three vomits 3 as, 
from late experience, they do not endanger a renewal 
of the difcharge, and muft promote the expectora- 
tion of the efchar, or any extravafated blood 3 which 
otherwife, by its delay acquiring a putrid acrimony, 
perhaps moft frequently erodes the contiguous velfels > 
and, forming new ulcerations, becomes the general 
caufe of conlumptiolis, fubfequent to accidental fpit- 
tings of blood. 
I am, Gentlemen, 
Your very humble fervant, 
Lichfield, Dec. 17. 1759. Erafmus Darwin. 
L1X. An Account of the late Earthquakes in 
Syria : In a Letter from Dr. Patrick 
Ruffell, to his Brother, Alexander Ruflell, 
M.D. F.R.S . 
Aleppo, Dec. 2, 1759. 
Read Feb. zi, S I recoiled nothing in the way of 
176°. bufinefs, which I have not already 
wrote you about 3 and as I know not when this 
letter may get away, I fhall, in the mean time, give 
you fome account of the earthquakes here, which 
have thrown the people into a terrible condensation. 
The fpring of this year was unufually dry, the 
fummer temperate, and the autumn, though the 
rains came on towards the end of September, might 
be 
