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appeared, which turns into a fcab, and 

 ib a pretty fure fign of the dileale, al- 

 though there be no thrulh or fore throat. 

 Sometin^es there was a hoarfenefs. The 

 uvula has been deftroyed by it. Chil- 

 dren on the breaft leized with it in the 

 mouth and throat, periflied for hunger, 

 not being able to iuck or fwallow. In a 

 few inftances the fubmaxillary glands, or 

 kernels under the loiuer jaiv, have been 

 confiderably Iwelled, 



2. Acquiring greater ftrength, and 

 affecting more the habit, it appeared in 

 the form of fmall purtules, or blujhes oi z, 

 dirty hue, which breaking left a dry 

 crult, with bluenefs around, and ulcera- 

 ted deep into the cellular membrane, or 

 fatty fart beloiv the Jkin. Children moft-r 

 ly were the fubjeds of it m this form. 

 Thefe puftules chiefly occupied the belly, 

 groins, and fides ; fometimes they were 

 feen on the face. The ulcers ufually 

 made but linall progrefs ; being, for the 

 moft part, no bigger than the top of one's 

 finger or thumb ; fome long, lome round. 

 Others irregular, and pretty clean, with 



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