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 1 6 The Caufes and Cure iince, from his own Knowledge alio, givai a very particular and national Account of this Place.,, and the Manner of its killing. to whom therefore the Reader may turn for further Satisfaction. ANOTHER, and more general Caufe than any hitherto mentioned of thefe Ma- ladies, is fbme bad and unw-holfbme Con- ftitution of Air. Such CJSftitutions may Strife from feveral Caufes, which although they affect us in different Manners, yet as they are equally fata], we call them all Malignant or Peftilcntial : In Order there- fore to imderftand the better how we are differently affected by thofe different Con- flitutions, it will be proper to confider them ibmewhat diftinctly, under thefe genera! Heads, viz.* A dry hot Air, hat and moift, cold and moifi, and cold and dry ; to which moll Variations of Air may be reduced. THAT from the ieveral Constitutions of Air, our Eodies are differently affected; mid that mofl* Difeafes are in fome Meafure more or lefs influenced thereby, is quite out of Difpute. Hippocrates, in a great many Places, declares himfelf of this Mind: His whole third Section of Aphorisms is a Proof of