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the fecond, & e contra 4. The fliortcr the 

 duration is of the firft, the greater and more 

 certain is the danger in the fecond flate. 

 For when the fever terminated before the 

 beginning of the third day, death fcemed 

 inevitably to be the confequence, as there 

 was then no poffibility of fupporting the 

 pulfe, and as all the bad fymptoms were 

 then hurried on with fuch precipitation, that 

 the patient generally died before the end of 

 the fifth day, excepting a confiderable cool- 

 nefs of the weather happily interveened ; but 

 on the contrary, it was a favourable circum- 

 fl:ance when the fever was protraded to the 

 end of the third day, without any remarkable 

 hardnefs or depreflion of the pulfe. 5. A 

 great deprefTion of the pulfe, about the ter- 

 mination of the fever, is bad, fince, from 

 that circumflance, the vomitings, incelTant 

 jadations, the coldnefs and lividnefs of the 

 extremities, haemorrhagies, delirium^ &c. are 

 ufliered in with furprifing celerity. 6* The 

 more the ftrength is proftrated from the 

 firft attack, the greater is the danger. 7. 

 A vomiting coming on early in the difeafe, 

 and continuing or increafmg, is b^d, and 

 generally prefages the black i:omit. 8. A 



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