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' the whole breaft and neck appeared livid; 
the heart palpitated ftrongly ; the heat 
about the precordia increafed much ;_ the 
refpiration became. difficult, with fre- 
quent fighing ; the patient now became 
anxious, and extremely reftlefs ; the 
fweat flowed from the face, neck, and 
breaft; blood flowed from the mouth; 
or nofe, or ears, and in fome, from all 
_ thofe parts at onee; the deglutition be- 
came difficult; the hiccoughs and /ub- 
Jultus of the tendons came on, and were 
frequent; the patients trifled with their 
fingers, and picked the naps of the bed- 
cloaths; they grew comatous, or were 
conflantly delirious. In this terrible 
itate, fome continued eight, ten, or twelve 
hours before they died, even after they 
had been fo long fpeechlefs, and without 
any perceptible pulfation of the arteries 
in the wrifts ; whereas, in all other acute 
difeafes, after the pulfe in the wrifts 
' ceafes, death follows immediately. When - 
. the difeafe was very acute, violent con- 
vulfons feized the unhappy patient, and, 
» quickly brought this /ladium to its fatal 
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