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for the mucous membrane of the digestive 

 channels, and especially that of the intestines, 

 displays, like the external tegument in man 

 and the brute creation, divers forms of inflam- 

 mation, analogous with the measles, the scar- 

 latina, and the small-pox; so that, if the typhoid 

 fever in man, which is nothing else than the 

 small-pox of the intestines, is so frequently 

 cured, it is because the general morbid con- 

 dition, the fever, often conceals different intes- 

 tinal lesions, albeit they seem to be similar in 

 the general symptoms, which taken collectively 

 constitute the disease. 



The flesh of these diseased animals was 

 blackish, and devoid of blood ; the animals 

 which fed upon it, if uncooked, sickened after- 

 wards, or died. The wrecks of the bodies, and 

 more particularly the skin, sometimes retained 

 a strength of contagion so deadly, that the 

 mere exportation of them was enough to cause 

 its propagation, and to this cause was at that 

 time attributed the outbreak of the contagion 

 in England. 



An extraordinary case of this pernicious in- 

 fluence, which is related by Hartmann, who 

 observed this epizootia at its decline in 1756, 



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