It appears that these persons did not fall sick of any disease, but the fact of itself is remarkable enough.
[22] Hamilton's History of Medicine.
[23] It has been said, that "an induction once carefully drawn, is as perfect from a single instance as it is from ten thousand, and that it is only an uncultivated mind which requires a load and accumulation of knowledge to assist his thoughts."—Sewell "on the Cultivation of the Intellect."
[24] See Dr. Alison's Pamphlet on the Fever in Edinburgh.
[25] Earthquakes have in all times been considered to have some connexion with pestilences. "A most grievous pestilence broke out in Seleucia, which from thence to Parthia, Greece, and Italy, spread itself through a great part of the world, from the opening of an ancient vault in the temple of Apollo, and that it raged with so much fury as to sweep away a third part of the inhabitants of those countries it visited."—Dr. Quincy, on the Causes of Pestilential Disease.
"Upon an earthquake the earth sends forth noisome vapours which infect the air; so it was observed to be at Hull in Yorkshire, by the Rev. Mr. Banks, of that place, after a small earthquake there in 1703, it was a most sickly time for a considerable while afterwards, and the greatest mortality that had been known for fifteen years."—Anonymous, 1769.
[26] See Sharon Turner's Sacred History, text and notes, vol. i. p. 161 & 162.
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