Observations on epidemic disorders, with remarks on nervous and malignant fevers. / By James Sims, M.D.

  • James Sims
Date:
MDCCLXXIII. [1773]
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Credit: Observations on epidemic disorders, with remarks on nervous and malignant fevers. / By James Sims, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / EPIDEMIC DISEASES. 13 to blow for about fix weeks ; and though it afterwards inclined more to the weft, yet few remember a drier and more agreeable fummer or autumn, and even the months of G&ober, November, and December i* « « rr « ** were remarkably dry, fome gentle frofts Jr * ' * 9 * with eaftern winds only ferving to remind us of the advanced feafon of the yean During the firft two months of the year 1766, there was fcarcely any rain, froft moftly predominating with eaft and nor¬ therly winds, and on the 12 th of February, a moft extraordinary quantity of fnow fell from the north-weft. The firft 2 3 days of , * * ** March were very fine, wind fouth-eaft; from thence to the end variable. Very dry agreeable weather prevailed during the * # * f * .*• - «* next five months, the wind fcarcely blow¬ ing from any other points than the fouth and weft. On the 27th of Auguft began a moft ftormy feafon, wind wefterly, which continued with little intermiffion until the 9 e * • • ^ ♦* autumnal equinox, at which time the wind changing to the oppofite quarter, the weather
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