426 ESSAYS anp OBSERVATIONS 
end. After death, the livid blotches in- 
ereafed faft, efpecially about the face, | 
breaft, and neck, and the putrefaCtion 
began very early, or rather increafed ve- 
ry quickly. . 
XI. Tus was the progrefs-of this ter- 
rible difeafe through its feveral /tadia, But, 
in hot weather, and when the fymptoms: 
in the firft ftage were very violent, it paf- 
fed through thofe ftages, as Dr Warren 
has likewife obferved, with fuch precipita- 
tion, that there was but little opportuni- 
ty of aiftinguifhing its different fudia ; 
the whole tragedy having been finifhed: 
in lefs than 48 hours. 
XII. Ir was remarkable, that, r. The 
infection was increafed by warm and 
leffened by cold weather. 2. The fymp- 
toms in the feveral /fadia were more’ 
or lefs violent, according to the heat 
er coolnefs of the weather. ‘In hot 
days, the fymptoms were not only more 
violent, but in thofe who feemed, in mo-~ 
derate weather, to be on the recovery, or 
at leaft in no danger, the fymptoms were 
all fo greatly heightened, when the wea- 
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