A description of the influenza; with its distinction and method of cure / by R. Hamilton, M.D.

  • Robert Hamilton
Date:
1782
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A description of the influenza; with its distinction and method of cure / by R. Hamilton, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the hail continued to fall about a quarter or twenty minutes. It did not, how¬ ever, fpread to any great diftance, for five \ . miles from this, no hail was perceived. * Since this it has thundered frequently, but the moft remarkable was about the 24th of May. It began in the evening, a little before fun-fet, and continued at leaft for two hours. The thunder at this place, however, was lefs remarkable than the lightning ; I flood with a gentleman here to obferve it nearly the whole time of its continuance. Preceding the thunder, it was a dead calm, and the day likewife by far the warmeft we had experienced for a length of time before. There was fomething awfully beautiful in the lightning. It did not appear in flafhes in general, but in large balls, one rolling after another over the heavens B 2 northward
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