Observations on the epidemical diseases in Minorca. From the year 1744 to 1749. To which is prefixed, a short account of the climate, productions, inhabitants, and endemial distempers of that island / By George Cleghorn.

  • Cleghorn, George, 1716-1789.
Date:
1779
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Credit: Observations on the epidemical diseases in Minorca. From the year 1744 to 1749. To which is prefixed, a short account of the climate, productions, inhabitants, and endemial distempers of that island / By George Cleghorn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bs Hail and Snow are often intermixed with the Rains which fall in Winter and in Spring; but the Snow, for the moft Part, diflolves immediately ; and Ice is here an uncommon Appearance. It is not my Defign to give a geogra- phical Account of the Ifland, its Situa- tion, Harbours, Cities, and other Particu- lars, of this Nature: thefe may be met with elfewhere. I fhall only obferve that the whole of it is what the Sailors term low Land; excepting a few Hills near the Center, of which the moft con- Terra tremit: fugere fere, et mortalia corda Per gentes humiles ftravit pavor ; ille flagranti Aut Atho, aut Rhodopen, aut alta Ceraunia telo Dejicit: ingeminant Auftri, et denfifimus imber, Nunc nemora ingenti vento, nunc litora plangunt. VirG. Georg. L. i. ver. 322. Effufis imbribus atris Tempeftas fine mora furit, tonitruque tremifcunt Ardua terrarum, et campi: ruit zthere toto Turbidus imber aqua, denfifque nigerrimus Auftris. Aineid. La. v. ver. 693. fiderable,