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cold; and a clammy fweat frequently breaks 
out.—The legs become feeble with a prick- 
ling numnefs; and there is a debility and 
lazinefs in all the body.—The appetite goes 
away, and they don’t digeft what food they 
take.—Sometimes'a diarrhea makes a cure; 
but, if it continues too long, it is very hurt- 
ful.—In. this /fadium the fick are yet able to 
go about and to. work. 
But, if thefe fymptoms continue long, 
and fpirituous liquors are drunk with an em- 
pty ftomach, or after working lead; the di- 
feafe comes to its fecond ftage: in which, 
to the former complaints, are added a fixed 
pain in the ftomach and guts, efpecially in 
the lower part of the abdomen, extending 
itfelf from the one os ilinm to the other.— 
The patients become very coftive, with the 
fenfe of fomewhat gnawing their inteftines ; 
and the pulfe turns quick with heat on the 
fkin.---Giddinefs, with vehement pain, feizes 
the head; which is fucceeded by an infenfi- 
bility and delirium, like madnefs of the worft 
kind; in fo much that they tear their own 
flefh, and bite their hands; the extremities 
tremble, and are convulfed: at laft they fall 
low 
