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of the year was printed a catalogue, with a clear 
and concife defcription of the difeafes moft fatal 
in this place. The faculty, in general, have fent 
written certificates, or given verbal information, 
to the clerks of each parilh, of what difeafes the 
patients died. The moft confiderable errors, in 
■this table, will be among the dileafes of children, 
who are not able to deferibe their complaints; 
and concerning whole diforders medical advice is 
more rarely defired. The article of Convuljions 
is particularly to be fufpefted ; for when an infant 
is feized with a fever, or almoft any other difor- 
der, if there be any diftortion of features, expref- 
fing pain, or any irregular motion of the eyes, 
fiurfes always denominate the difeafe, inward 
convulsions. 
Confumption is another term, which the Englifh 
are inclined to apply to many diforders, befides the 
difeafe of the lungs, to which medical people give 
that peculiar name. In this Table, particular care 
has been taken, to diftinguilh the weaknefs of In- 
fancy, and decay of old age, which are generally 
•confounded with pulmonary confumptions. And 
to prevent every error of this kind, with all pof- 
ftble accuracy, ftridl injunctions were given, that 
no diforder, unlefs attended with a cough , fhould 
be called confumption. 
Notwithftanding this care to feparate, as far as 
prejudice would allow, every other difeafe from 
confumptions, it is matter of aftonifhment to ob- 
ferve, that, between the ages of io and 50, more 
people die of confumptions, than of all other dif- 
eafes : this is the period of life, when every faculty, 
