ARTICLE IV.
SKETCH OF THE MEDICAL TOPOGRAPHY
OF THE
HUNDRED OF PENWITH,
COMPRISING THE
DISTRICT OF THE LANDSEND,
IN CORNWALL.
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.