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they are, the greater is the danger. But a 

 flux of the meiifes, tho' not at their regular 

 period, if attended with an abatement of the 

 fymptoms, is a favourable circumftance, o- 

 therwife it is bad. ii. A fuppreffion of 

 urine, efpecially in thofe, who, in the courfe 

 of the difeafe, have had large difcharges that 

 way, is a certain fign of the quick approach 



of death. 



XV. As to the prognoftics in the third 



i^plfiadium, it is fufficient to fay 



« Nature, alas! was now furpriz'd, 

 " And all her forces feiz'd, 

 » Before fhe was how to refift advis'd*. 



* Dr. S^rafi Account of the plague of Athens. 



Art. 



