The whole season being wet, cold, and northerly, people were, for

the most part, healthy during winter; but early in the spring very

many, indeed, the greater part, were valetudinary. At first

ophthalmies set in, with rheums, pains, unconcocted discharges,

small concretions, generally breaking with difficulty, in most

instances they relapsed, and they did not cease until late in

autumn. During summer and autumn there were dysenteric affections,

attacks of tenesmus and lientery, bilious diarrhoea, with thin,

copious, undigested, and acrid dejections, and sometimes with watery

stools; many had copious defluxions, with pain, of a bilious,

watery, slimy, purulent nature, attended with strangury, not connected

with disease of the kidneys, but one complaint succeeding the other;

vomitings of bile, phlegm, and undigested food, sweats, in all cases a

reduncance of humors. In many instances these complaints were

unattended with fever, and did not prevent the patients from walking

about, but some cases were febrile, as will be described. In some

all those described below occurred with pain. During autumn, and at

the commencement of winter, there were phthisical complaints,

continual fevers; and, in a few cases, ardent; some diurnal, others

nocturnal, semi-tertians, true tertians, quartans, irregular fevers.

2. All these fevers described attacked great numbers. All these

fevers attacked the smallest numbers, and the patients suffered the

least from them, for there were no hemorrhages, except a few and to

a small amount, nor was there delirium; all the other complaints

were slight; in these the crises were regular, in most instances, with

the intermittents, in seventeen days; and I know no instance of a

person dying of causus, nor becoming phrenitic. The tertians were more

numerous than the ardent fevers, and attended with more pain; but

these all had four periods in regular succession from the first

attack, and they had a complete crisis in seven, without a relapse

in any instance. The quartans attacked many at first, in the form of

regular quartans, but in no few cases a transition from other fevers