Address, &c.

  • Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831.
Date:
[1796]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Address, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I. Hiftories of fuch difeafes as reign in your particular pla- ces of refulence, at each and every i'eafon of the vnar, including the time of their appearance and dilappcar- ance; the peculiar cuftoms and manners, and food of the people; local peculiarities, (not merely fhofe1 of the town or village, hut of the immediate residence of the fick); preceding, cotemporary, and fuhfequent com- plaints; fymptoms, progrefs, extent, method of cure, mortality, and what proportion of either fex, and of different ages, are affected:—in fea-ports, attention to he paid to fuppofed fources of importation, and to the arrival of foreigners; in new fettlements, to changes in the face of the country, by clearings, drainings, Sec. and to the increafc of population, by immigration and other- wife. 2. Hiftories cf fuch difeafes as appear amorfg Domejiic Ani- mals—fuch as horfes, cattle, flieep, Sec—their caufes, fymptoms, method of cure, &c. Sec. 3. Accounts of In feels—whether any uncommon dearth or numbers of them; whether troublefome or noxious to men, beafts, or vegetables ; with as accurate and minute notices as may be of (heir derivation, mode of propaga- tion, nature and extent of fuch ravages, or other evils, as they may occahon; of their appearance and difap- pearance, and of the means, if any, of guarding againfr. or deftroying them. 4. Hiftories of the progrefs and condition of Vegetation— with regard to growth, vigour, and difeafe; independent of the lavages of infe£ts; but marking the influence of manures, and the local fituation, both as to elevation and foil, air and water. 5. The ftate of the Atmofphcre—in refpeel to drynefs and humidity, heat and cold, ferenity and tempeftuoufnefs; including the direction and force of winds, and the kn- lible quantity of electricity. Where information relative to thefe various topics of in- quiry can be given in a conneded form, it will be moft ac- ceptable; and die more minute and precife, the more ufeful will it be. But general and diftin6r. communications are ear- neff.ly