282 
Dr. Heberden fun. on the Influence of Cold 
1 795 ‘ 
Week 
ending 
Mean heat. 
Whole No. 
of deaths. 
Aged above 
60. 
Asthma. 
Apoplexy 
and palsy. 
Fever. 
Consumption 
3ropsy. 
6 Jan. 
Morn. 
2 5 ° 
Noon. 
2 9 ° 
244 
5 * 
>3 
4 
20 
73 
7 
13 Jan. 
26° 
32° 
532 
139 
26 
>3 
49 
‘58 
20 
20 Jan. 
24° 
O 
O 
CO 
637 
>45 
5 > 
1 1 
8l 
164 
37 
27 Jan. 
“19° 
27° 
543 
>43 
64 
11 
42 
157 
17 
3 Feb. 
25° 
37° 
867 
239 
95 
13 
66 
2 73 
45 
[Result 
2 3 ° I 
z 9°-4 
2823 
717 
249 
52 
258 
825 
1 26 
1796. 
Week 
ending 
Mean heat. 
Whole No. 
of deaths. 
Aged above* 
60. 
Asthma. 
Apoplexy 
and palsy. 
Fever. 
Consumption. 
Dropsy. 
5 Jan. 
Morn. Noon. 
40° 46° 
300 
35 
5 
7 
34 
79 
>3 
12 Jan. 
41° 
49 ° 
273 
37 
9 
.5 
25 
53 
19 
19 Jan. 
48° 
53 ° 
3*3 
29 
2 
4 
29 
77 
1 1 
26 Jan. 
47 ° 
52° 
257 
20 
7 
9 
23 
47 
11 
2 Feb. 
41° 
1 
r 
328 
32 
6 
6 
23 
86 
16 
Result 
43 °- 
5 l 5 °°-' 
1471 
153 
29 
3 ' 
134 
342 
70 
Notwithstanding the plague, the remittent fever, the dysen- 
tery, and the scurvy, have so decreased, that their very name 
is almost unknown in London ; yet there has, I know not 
how, arisen a prejudice concerning putrid diseases, which seems 
to have made people more and more apprehensive of them, as 
the danger has been growing less. It must in great measure 
be attributed to this, that the consumption of Peruvian bark 
