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ARTICLE IV.

SKETCH OF THE MEDICAL TOPOGRAPHY

OF THE

COMPRISING THE

DISTRICT OF THE LANDSEND,

IN CORNWALL.

BY JOHN FORBES, M.D., F.R.S.

Physician to the Chichester Infirmary; Honorary member of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, the Portsmouth Philosophical Society, &c.; and Physician in Ordinary to His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge.

HE very imperfect account which I am now about to give of the diseases that affect the inhabitants of the Landsend, is derived from the following sources:

1. My own observation and personal inquiries among all classes of persons, during the period of my residence in Cornwall.