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frequently make a miftake and eat the roots 

 of napellus ceruleus, which generally proves 

 fatal to them. 



In the year 1764, John Grumpier, a 

 weaver in Spitalfields, having fupped upon 

 fome cold meat and fallad, was fuddenly 

 taken ill ; and when Mr. Bacon, the Surgeon 

 employed upon this occafion, viiited him, 

 he found him in the following fituation. He 

 was in bed, with his head fupported by an 

 affiftant, his eyes and teeth were fixed, his 

 noftrils comprefTed ; his hands, feet, and 

 forehead cold ; no pulfe to be perceived -, his 

 refpiration fliort, interrupted, and laborious. 



Mr. Bacon was informed, that foon after 

 his patient had fupped, he complained of a 

 fenfation of heat, affeding the tongue and 

 fances : his teeth appeared loofe ^ and it was 

 very remarkable, although a looking glafs 

 was produced, and his friends attempted to 

 reafon him out of the extravagant idea, yet 

 he imagined that his face was fwelled to 

 twice its ufual fize. By degrees the heat, 

 which at iiift only feemed to afFed the mouth 

 and adjacent parts, diffufed itfelf over his body 



and 



