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Cafes of this kind liave occurred, within my 

 own knowledge, where the caufe has been 

 confelfed, when the efted: was unerringly per- 

 ceptible ; both the pores and the inteftincs 

 (already preternaturally relaxed by the adminj- 

 ftration of medicine, additional cloathing, and 

 furrounding warmth) fuffer fuddcn collapHon, 

 by thhjiyptic power of tho, frigid element pro- 

 ducing an almoft inilantaneous obftrudlion to 

 every fecretion -, the perfpirative matter thus 

 obftrudled, is diredtly fixed in the extremities, 

 conftituting rheumatic pains, that frequently 

 terminate in pally ; or its effedls upon the fto- 

 mach and inteftines, then in the higheft ftate 

 of irritability, are found to produce the moil; 

 excruciating doolie y fpafms, cor.'oidjionsy infan:- 

 mation or mortijicationy that in either cafe 

 generally ends in death ; though lingering in- 

 fiances ar/ frequently feen, where eight, ten, 

 or twelve days of dreadful anxiety precede the 

 termination. 



Thefe remarks upon {0 critical a fa bjed" ai'e 

 introduced to point out the certain danger, and 

 to fupprefs, if poilible, fo abfurd, fo incon- 

 iiderate, and contemptible a pradrice, that, it is 



natural 



