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true, it is much to be wilhed, that the miliary 
fever may be entirely banifhed from the cata- 
logue of difeafes. It mud give fingular pleafure, 
to every benevolent heart, and well-wifher to this 
place, to find only one fatal miliary fever in the 
regider of this year. May not this circumdance, 
with great probability, be attributed to the method, 
lately adopted, of treating fevers, by admitting frefh 
air into fick chambers, and adminidering fuch re- 
gimen and remedies, as are cooling, and check 
putrefaction? 
It is obfervable, (Table III.) that the healthieft 
months of this year, were July and Augud; and 
that the mod fickly was November ; and that 
Autumn and Winter, compared w r ith the Spring 
and Summer quarters, were more fatal, nearly in 
the proportion of three to two. That Summer 
is lefs fatal than Winter, is a fad, confirmed by 
various obfervations, made in diderent places both 
of town and country. A mod ingenious philo- 
fopher, by a train of experiments, planned with 
amazing fagacity, among a great variety of curi- 
ous and uleful difcoveries, has proved, in a very 
fatisfaClory manner, that air, rendered noxious by 
the breath of animals, or by putrefaClion, is re- 
dored, by vegetables growing in it, to a date fit 
Tor refpiration, and the fupport of animal life. 
Hence is it not probable, that vegetation, among 
other caufes, contributes to render Spring and 
Summer fo remarkably more healthy, than the 
red of the year. 
The only difeafe, that was generally epidemic 
3his year, was the chincough, which began about 
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