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and then called Influenza , the name applied to it in 
Italy. You have very well defcribed it in yourfecond 
volume De Acre et morbis epidemicis , pag. io i . Tho’ 
of the fame catarrhal kind, it was by no means fo 
fevere or fo fatal as the difeafe of February 1733, of 
which you have like wife given us the hiftory in your 
firft volume, page 80. The diforder, though very 
general, feemed to attack the women more feverely 
than the men. Much bleeding did harm : and where 
there was no fever, which was frequently the cafe, the 
patients recovered equally well without it. Even with- 
out bleeding, or other evacuations, fome, more efpeci- 
ally women and lax-dbred men, were much de- 
bilitated during its whole continuance. The blood 
in mod was not fizey; but the crad'amentum was 
tender, and the ferum bilious. Where the heat was 
great, gentle emetics brought up much bile, and very 
much leffened the inflammatory date of the difeafe. 
The red was to be left to bliders, if the cough was 
very troublelbme and the dridture upon the bread 
fevere, balfamic medicines, gentle opiates, and light 
broths; carefully avoiding cordials of every denomi- 
nation and volatiles. Towards the end of the diforder, 
after gentle evacuations by dool, decodtions of Cort. 
Peruv. were of fignal fervice, both in recruiting the 
drength, and carrying off the remaining cough. 
In the diforder of 1743, the fkin was very fre- 
quently inflamed, when the fever ran high; and it 
afterwards peeled off in mod parts of the body : but 
this was not oblerved to happen in the prefent diforder. 
We have had here this autumn a difeafe, which 
has not been in my remembrance epidemic at Lon- 
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