Excerpt from A Dissertation on the Means of Preserving Health, in Charleston, and the Adjacent Low Country: Read Before the Medical Society of South-Carolina, on the 29th of May, 1790 The months of April and May have found by long experience to be unfriendly to children in Charlefion. Parents fhould, there fore, make arrangements for keeping them out of the city during thefe two months. Coun try arr 15 of {ingular utility not oniy for pre venting but curing that vomiting and purging which attacks children on the approach or warm weather Where a retreat to the country is not practicable, the next hef't preventive of this dan gerons complaint is cold bathing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.