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Air, its admirable Effects

Exhalations from Stagnant and Corrupt Waters may be Reckoned
of the Poisonous kind Thus those that Live in low wet Marshy Places
are Liable to Agues the Measles and Small Pox of the Worst Sort as also
Pestilential and Spotted Fever. Floods and Inundations of Rivers are Bad for the same
Reason especially in hot Countrys
Rainy Years and much South Wind is unwholsome
Endemic and Epidemic Diseases, which Reign in Certain places under Certain
Constitutions of the Year, Generally owe their Origin to Various Exhalations
and Filthiness in the Air
In this Case acute Fever with Exanthemata of all Kinds as Small Pox
Measles, Tertians, Quartans, Double Tertians Burning Fevers, Pleurisies
Opthalmies, Quinzeys Catarrhal Fevers as well Benign as Malignant
Erysipelatous Disorders, Rheumatismus, Gouts, Diarrheas, Dysenteries
and Bastard Pleurisies
When there has been Excessive Rains Followed with hot Days and then
Sudden Cold People are very sickly