5 8 The Caufes and Cure cold Water, fo that the Times of flaying in are as ihort as polEble, the Good received hereby being chieily in the firft Shudder and Confrriftion ; and it is particularly to be remembred, tho 5 Dr. Hodges hath omitted it in his Account, that Watermen, and others, whole Occafions imployed them much upon the River, and in the Cold, ' fuffered leaft in the late Sicknefs. The Ufe of Vinegar, and other Acids, are alfo of Service for the like Intention. A S to the Prefervative Means, which the Government have power to provide, there is a Bill juft now palled in Parliament, under the Direction of the beft judges m fuch Matters, and which feems to have omitted no human Methods to guard agaLfi: the Ap- proaches of fuch a dreadful Invader : Yet in the Courfe of an accidental Converfation a little, time iince, I met with fomewhat fuggefted, which I cannot but prefume, would -very, much conduce to this great End , and that is, fuch a Regulation of the common Bills of Mortality, as might very nearly alcertain the Difeafe, of which every Per- fon dies , for as they are now ordered, there is nothing to be depended upon from them. And this is propofed to be done, not only in London,
