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with more than one, that Was troubled with zChtn-Qough , and that toowasbut in a flight manner; Which Minute Difierences in the ways of EpidemickDistempers operating in our Bodies, clearly shew, that their Causes cannotbe ascribed only to the sensible Alterations of the Weather , or the manifestqualities of Heat, Cold, Moisture or Drynefe, highly predominant in the Air,according to the vulgär Solution ofthem : but that they proceed from fome-thing more Nice and Latent than ali this.

But to return to our General Cold ; It was further remarkable for it’s VastExtern. It sciz’d them at London , Oxford , and all other places of England,as universalis , and with the fame Symptoms , as it seized us in Dublin ; butwith this observable Difference, that it appeared 3 or 4 Weeks Iboner in Lon-don, than in Dublin. It also reacht the Continent and infested the NorthernParts of France , as about Taris , Flanders, Holland , and the rest of the Vni-ted Provinces, with more Vtolence , and no lest frequeucy, than it did in theseCountries: so that I believe no Epidemick Distempcr was e ver observed toextend so far.

No Example of any Epidemick Distemper seeras in all reipects to comenearer in Competition with our late general Cold, than the Tranfient Feverin 1688. This Ihort sort of Fever was first observed in Dublin about thebeginning of July, and it so universaliJ seiz’d all sorts of Men w hat e ver, thatI then made an Estimate not above one in 15 eseaped. It began, as gene-rally Feavert do, with a Chilneß and Shivering ali over, like that of anAgue, but not so violent, which soon broke out into a dry Burning Heat,with grcat uneafinefs that commonly confin’d them to their Beds, where theypafled the ensoingNight very reftlefs • they camplained likewise of Giddsnefs,and a dull Tain in their Heads, chieHy about their Eyes, with unscttled Tainsin their Limbs, and about the fmall of their Back, a soreness ali over theirFlesh, a losi of Appetite, with a Nausea or Aptness to Vomit, an unufualIII Taste in their Mouths, yet little or no Thirst : And tho’ these Symptomswere very violent for a time, yet they did not continue long : for about the2,d. Day of the Distemper, the Patient usiially of himself feli into a Sweat ,(unlesi ’twas prevented by letting Blood, which howeyer beneficial in otherFevers, I found, manifestly retarded the Progreft of this) and if the Sweatwas encouraged for y or 6 Hours by laying on more Cloaths, or taking forneSudoristck Medicine, most of the Disorders before mentioned would entirelydilappear, or at lcast very much abate. The Giddsnefs of their Head, andwant of Appetite would osten continue some days afterwards, but with theuse ofopen Fresti Air they certainly in 4 or y Days at farthest recoveredthese likewise, and were pcrfectly well. This Transient Disease was so fa-vourable, that not one in a Thouland Dyed of it: And by the middle ofAugust it wholly diseppeared j so that it had run its füll Course through allsorts ofPeople in 7 Weeks time. It also fpread it seif all over England, andraged as gener ally in Londtm as in Dubltn, and with the fame Concourse ofSymptoms. But it begun to be taken notice of ar London about the middleof May, and it continued there till the latter end of June 3 so that it did notIhew itself bere till it had wholly diseppeared there. And it was very re-Vol. III. N n markablc