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ARTICLE IV.




SKETCH OF THE MEDICAL TOPOGRAPHY


OF THE


HUNDRED OF PENWITH,


COMPRISING THE


DISTRICT OF THE LANDSEND,


IN CORNWALL.


BY JOHN FORBES, M.D., F.R.S.


Physician to the Chichester Infirmary; Honorary member of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, the Portsmouth Philosophical Society, &c.; and Physician in Ordinary to His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge.


[Continued from Vol. II. p. 131]



THE very imperfect account which I am now about to give of the diseases that affect the inhabitants of the Landsend, is derived from the following sources:

1. My own observation and personal inquiries among all classes of persons, during the period of my residence in Cornwall.