ch was
epidemical the Year before, in _August_ and _September_, we
are told, that it did not proceed, as is commonly believed,
from the eating of Fruit; for it was observed, that those who
eat Fruit freely escaped better than those who abstained from
it altogether. _Vide Comment. de Rebus in Hist. Nat. &
Medecin. Gestis_, vol. II. par. iv. sect. v.

Generally in _August_ and _September_ we have People admitted
into _St. George_'s Hospital for the Dysentery; who have
certainly not catched the Disorder from eating of Fruit, but
from working in the Fields, and being exposed to Causes
similar to those which produce the Dysentery in Camps.

At the Time the Petechial Fever was frequent at _Paderborn_ in
_January_, _February_, and _March_ 1761, the Flux frequently
accompanied it; and we had in the Hospitals likewise a Number of old
Cases of this Kind, the Remains of the preceding Campaign about
_Warbourg_; besides some Men who had relapsed during the Winter, and
were sent to us when the Troops marched, upon the Winter-Expedition,
into the Country of _Hesse_. In _May_ and _June_, what Fluxes we had
at _Osnabruck_, were the remaining old Cases of the Hospitals of
_Munster_, _Paderborn_, _Hoxter_, and _Niehms_. Some few recent ones
were sent to _Bilifield_ about the End of _June_, and above 300 to
_Munster_, in _July_ and _August_. Those sent to _Bremen_, in
_November_ and _December_, had continued for some time before they
reached us; but a good many of the Soldiers in the Garrison were taken
ill of this Disorder, and sent immediately to the Hospital. In the
Beginning of _May_ we had but four ill of this Complaint in the
Hospital I attended; and there were not above six or seven, among the
Sick sent down from the Army, in the Middle of this Month. In _June_
there were but two sent to the Hospital at _Minden_; and not above ten
among the Sick sent to _Natzungen_ in the Beginning of _July_; tho'
towards the Middle of this Month they began to be more frequent; and
continued to be more so in _August_ and _September_; and in the
Hospital at _Osnabruck_ we had not above five or six ill of this
Disorder, in _December_ 1762, and in _January_, _February_ and _March_
1763.

The Dysentery commonly begun with Sickness and Gripes, succeeded by a
Purging, and attended with more or less Fever. Very soon the Gripes
became more severe, attended with a Flatulency in the Bowels, and
often with a Ten