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days; foon after, the pulfe became fmal- 
ler. ‘ . 
Tus ftage of the difeafe continued 
fometimes feven or eight days before the 
patient died. 
IX. WHEN this fladium (VIII.) of the 
difeafe terminated in health, it was by a 
recefs or abatement of the vomiting, hz- 
morrhagies, delirzum, inquietude, jacta- 
tions, and icteritious-like fuffufion of the 
{kin and white of the eyes; while, at the 
fame time, the pulfe became fuller, and 
the patient gained ftrength, which, after 
_ this difeafe, was very flowly. . 
But, whenit terminated in death, thofe 
(VIII.) fymptoms not only continued, but 
fooner or iater increafed in violence, and 
were fucceeded with the following, which 
may be termed the shird fiadium of the 
difeafe, which quickly ended in death. 
X. THE pulfe though foft became ex- 
ceedingly fmall and unequal ; the extre- 
mities grew cold, clammy, and livid; the 
face and lips, in fome, were flufhed; in 
others, they were of a livid colour; the 
livid fpecks increafed fo faft, that in fome, 
the 
