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 Rh assured me, that he had not lost a patient from this disease during the first forty years of his practice; but the same strong evidence of this fact, was not afforded by gentlemen of equally long experience. Its great fatality of late years was, however, generally admitted; and one of the country surgeons assured me, that no less than seventy persons had died of it in one year in one parish. Out of the 27 deaths from measles, recorded in the register of St. Paul, 21 occurred in two years, viz. in 1811, 6, and in 1812, 15. In the parish of St. Hilary (much smaller than St. Paul's, it is true) the register of which does not come below 1805, only 8 deaths from the same disease took place in twenty-eight years. In the year 1819, the disease proved fatal in a considerable proportion of the cases which occurred at Penzance; but there was nothing particular either in the result, or the history or phenomena of the affection.

Nettle-rash.—This affection was hardly observed by me, or in so slight a degree as to be undeserving of notice. l believe this is the character in other situations.

Erysipelas.—I have no remark to make on this disease. It would appear, from the tables, to be of rather frequent occurrence.

Hooping cough.—Hooping cough, in this district, presents nothing peculiar either in its relative prevalence or individual character. It is, and always has been prevalent after uncertain intervals. Some of the practitioners considered it as more common in spring and autumn, than at other times. Although no one had confidence in any one of the many remedies prescribed in this disease, yet it was