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and every enjoyment, both of body and mind, are 
in their moft vigorous perfection. It becomes 
therefore an enquiry, of the moft ftriking confe- 
quence to fociety, to difcover the caufe, in order 
to prevent the fatality, of a difeafe, which makes 
fuch dreadful havock among mankind. The 
Scrophula has been fufpeCted as the moft general 
caufe of confumptions j but this difeafe is lefs 
common in Chefter than in moft other places. 
Would the limits of this paper admit of fuch a 
difcuilion, very flrong evidence could be produced, 
that the moft frequent and moft fatal caule of 
confumptions, in this town and neighbourhood, is 
catching cold, which occalions a cough, that is 
entirely negleCted for many weeks or months, and 
is never fuppofed to be dangerous, ’till it becomes 
defperate. 
There are no marfhes fo near this city, as to infedt 
the air : hence we have no dyfenteries, and very 
few intermitting or remitting fevers, unlefs a few 
faint irregular paroxyfms may be fuppofed to re- 
quire that denomination. This fact may be brought' 
in evidence, tofupportthe obfervation, that marfhy 
effluvia are the caufe of thofe difeafes ; an opinion 
lately controverted by a very ingenious writer. 
For more than 30 years pad, the miliary fever 
has been fuppofed endemic in this city and neigh- 
bourhood ; but very probable evidence has been 
produced, by the moft judicious phyficians, that 
this eruption is very rarely, or never, critical and 
falutary, but that it is generally, or always, fabri- 
cated by clofe warm rooms, too many bed-cloaths,. 
hot medicines and diet. If this be univerfally. 
Vol. LXIV. L true. 
