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the recent distress, they crowd together in small
habitations, begrimed with dirt, to keep theinkeyes
warm stkainit inclement weather; hence the entre-
lactive fermentation generated in the dirt which
surrounds them, with the accumulated and coufined
exifidations from the skits and lungs, deteriorates
the air they breathe, vitiating its vital principle.
and exciting and disturbing the circulating and
nervous system, till fever is produced. This fever-
ish state further causes morbid secretions, and thus
originates the infection which, at drat an effect,
brewers the ravaging cause of reproducing a wore
violent and contagions disease.
The compass of a daily forint does not allow me to
•Ittilerge; but, Sir, to the local are to be added the
genetsl causes of the more than usual muscadi-
ne*s of the werithes for the last two or three years—
ttrie leant of employment, depriving the poor of the
means of procuring a selferecref of food—the in-
creased anxiety in endeavouring to !Acme this, us.
dergorre, too, with exposure to severe weather—acid
though last not least its this list of powerfully oper-
ating causes, the great depression of the mind,
from few and despondency, a hen the potients return
to their comfortless homes, without the susten.inee
secesMey for their craving families. The generous
irpstit•rises into despair or sinks into lethargic sle-
spoudessey, when all the doors to independent
labour are closed; the intention, therefore, roust
be as much directed to moral es well as to phy-
sical management. These general causes have
operated very largely within the last three years,
and..ll have no doubt, !save mainly contributed. not
oily io irrodtice, but to increase the in.sligiiiiiicy of
the fever! whirls have been so prevalent g the
labouring
,classra of the community,. Under slosh
circumstances, were medical aid mill sot be 00.
tiistit. the great engine of Corernthent meat wore
with its eo-operution in uslisting award.
lan puppy, to Lind, f the ob,enatiutas of Mr.
Peel, that this is intended ; it willtiotescape his
energy and icknowlldged talents, them, previous to
the cultivation of civilised life. Insilco: after consum-
ing the Produce of the soil where they' 4es;deil, wan•
tiered from multiplied member* to new setelethents
for additional fixer; and if in those coat k the pro-
duce of eetiiwd lab.ior 111 our men entijilry istse`beiii
eiliaasted, without the menses at !mar of supply-
ing mote to a greatly increased oncliiicreising
po-
pnlatiou, political sagacity sill isroleibly (ferret its
attention to the consider:.' r a ladder ieitttdy ;
most c 000000 nosily we find that alien those general
causes prevail. the worst fevers Lace takes' place.
The most destructive Erni *orient Greece ever
knew. was that which depopulated Athens soon
after the commencement of the Pelopoiniesian tear,

cud which is PO well ilescribeil by 'flisicyitiiles.
The accounts given of freers by Levi, Piocitiniis,
Moderns Situlus, thehow's:mimes historian; and

others, have Iwet, at a time when from wars, or
oilier similar causes, there have been a deficiency of
fowl, anxious fatigue of body. and agitations and
depression of unto, by fearful des' deiscieil. I
swell not ray in you how poetically this has heels
described by Lucretius, and, in p.rt, also by Ovid,
Lucian, and other Latin poets*. It may be curious,
Sir, to bring to your historical recollection, that lle'-
bind and Heralotus attribute the pestilesitial fever
which raged so Greece and the neighbouring coeu..
tries of Avis, immediately after the destruction of
Troy, to the ttli-cts of the decennial war.
The treatment of Typhus Fever, comprising the
prevention of contagiuts,.is so simple, so easy, and so
genendly understood by the iiittlligent purl of the
profession, that it iv uniircessury to enlarge upon it.
A hearty seal and activity in the medical managers
will ilcra great deal ; hut allow me to add, that, in
considering the subject otwu a e enlarged scale,
the useful employment of the soperabsissilaist popu-
lation, by givtiag wholesome activity to the body,
by supplying the independent means of procuring
soffit:ivory of food visit clothing, and thus by re-
lieving the mind hum oppression, and by creating
the cheerfool hope of bring al& to support their
families, will be the most posit rful adiuvionts to the
more immediate medical means for antailidating the
destructive march of the contagion.
1 have the Inn ~,,, r to lw, Sir,
%Visli respect and esteem,

Your faithful and (obedient Servant.
G. 1). YEATs, N.D.

Qitawaireel, May fair, May 1, MIS.

• The sardine! 'slider will find r rl ' ticsl rrrounl of
die peatilential fevers which have raced iu iht worl.l.4ewn its
estimeseesteal lu 1656, its kirekris Serutiairm Mantua.