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chiefly affeficd the patients in the night-time, great defluxions of 
thin rheum at the nole and eyes, immoderate dilcharges of the 
JSaUvcthy ipittmg, hoarfenels of voice, fore throats, with fome pain 
in fwallowiiig, wheczmgs, obftrucl-ions, and forenels in the breaft, 
a dull heavinels and ftoppage in the head, with fuch like, difor- 
ders, the ufual effects of cold, aftecled great numbers of all forts 
of people in 2)iMir! : Some were moVe violently affe6^ed, Ilo 
as to be confined for Ibme time to their beds • and they com- 
plained of feveriih fymptoms, as {]-iiverings and chilneis, which 
ofien returned 5 of pains in feveral parts of their bodies; 
jcvere head-aches, chiefly about the forehead, lb that the 
leall noiic affected them; great weaknefs in their eyes, that 
the leaft light was ofieniive; a perfe6t decay of all appetite 3 
foul turbid urine, with a brick-coloured fediment at the bot- 
tom 3 great uneafinefs and toffings in their beds all night- yet 
thefe diforders would ufually, without any remedies, abate of 
themfelves, and terminate in univcrlal fweats, that conftantly 
relieved3 this more violent degree of the cold, was apter to afiPe^^ 
fuch as were given to excels either in eating or drinking, or fuch 
as were inclinable to a Icrophulous difpofition of body, than on 
thole that were more temperate, and kls fubjedl: to obftru6tions : 
"When the cold was but moderate, it was ulually over in eight or 
ten days 3 but with thofe, in whom it arrived to a greater height, 
it continued a fortnight, three weeks, and fc)metim:es above a 
month 3 fome way or other, it univerfally afie^led every body 5 
thole in the country, as well as thole in the town 3 thole that 
were much abroad in the open air, and thole that flaid much 
within doors 3 the rc-buft and hardy, as well as the weakly and 
tender 3 and if it was favourable to any, they were the aged, many 
of whom elcaped it: As it fir ft appeared towards the beginning 
o{ November y fo it fcemed to arrive to its^greateft degree of vio- 
lence, and fpread molt univerfally about the middle of it, and by 
the beginning of the enluing month it very fenfibly abated, fo that 
very few did then complain of their colds 3 and in the Ipace of 
four or five weeks it had its rile, growth, and decay 3 and tho* 
this cold was {o univerial, none died thereof, except fuch whole 
Itrcngth was before fpcnt by fome tedious fit of Hcknels, or laboured 
under fome heavier difealc complicated therewith : This cold was 
as univerial m Efiglandy and with the lame fymptoms as it afFe£t- 
ed thofe in ^Dublin, but with this difference, that it appeared three 
or four weeks fooner in Lomlon than in 'Dublin-^ it alfo reached 
the continent, and infelled the northern parts of France '^ alio 
f lander i^ Holland^ and the red of the United 'Fro'oinceSy with 
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