ABSTRACT
Certain stated revolutions of the weather and winds may be traced through the several reasons of the year; and such revolutions as are highly worthy the attention of valetudinarians as well as physicians, by accounts of the concomitant diseases annexed. The method of treating of diseases was pursued by the father of physic, and has lately been revived by several English writers, particularly Wintringham, Huxham, and the in-desatigable Dr. Short. In the following History of the Diseases particular regard is had to the duration of the several severs, the number of days in which they terminated being specified with as much precision as practicable. The chapter argues that the endemial and epidemic diseases of different countries are very different in their type, duration, and degree of malignity, according to the different state of the air and weather in those several countries, and according to the different seasons in the same country.
