Scope and Contents Advises him to accomodate his remedies to the state of the system in his contest with "a powerful and insidious epidemic"; advises him to tru all modes of treatment; there is a right treatment and he hopes he will find it; true in their country that in rainy seasons low situations are healthy, and high ones sickly; former completely overflowed with water and the "coltes having no more upon" [missing] to favor "putrefaction"; tells him to tell his farmers who complain about the Plaster of Paris as the cosue of their sickness the story of the potato and how it was banished from France; hopes the Plaster of Paris will not be "dishonored" or the sewers of their country degraded by a similar act; his [BR] city is unusually healthy; heavy rains washing the streets and common sewers have been the means "in the hands of heaven" of keeping the City healthy. 2pp. AL. [signature clipped]