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ifland, the Mamps. In both cafes, there 

 appears to be a fufion, or corruption of 

 humours, which now become unfic for a- 

 nimal ufes, are thrown upon the proper 

 emtin(ftories, and drfcharged, 



Whati vER may be the material caufe 

 of the difeafe, it muft be of a lefs fixed and 

 adhering kind, which the blood, weak- 

 ly retaining, is difpofed to throw off, 

 at once, by fweating, unlolicited, and 

 without force, or the forma) procefs of a 

 tedious codlion. And here, if the paral- 

 lel is not too far urged, the fweating fick- 

 nefs occurs to which indeed it has but 

 a remote affinity in a mild degree of the 

 great and aftoniihing fymptom, fweat« 

 hig. This, however, in both was fpon- 

 taneous and critical, took place from the 

 beginning, and, when prevented in the 

 one cafe, occafioned much diforder, and 

 certain death in the other. 



Nor is it lefs remarkable, that, laying 

 afide its original form of catarrh, it fhould 

 have fvibfiftedfo long under another form, 

 without any farther change, or falling 



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