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with the lofs of blood and poor living, fhe 

 became quite emaciated, and died covered 

 with vermin. This is the fecond inftance of 

 the morbus pedicidofus which has ^^ome withm 

 my knowledge, a fymptom which was aflo- 

 ciated with the fatal .difeafe of the celebrated 

 Pym ; and which my old favourites, the cava- 

 liers, fuperftitioufly attributed to the judgment 

 of God, for difloyalty to his Vicegerent. 



THE ANTICOR, OR ANTICOEUR, 



Is fuppofed by Solleyfel to be an inflamma- 

 tion of the pericardium, or bag which contains 

 the heart, ufually terminating in a critical ab- 

 fcefs in the cheil ; according to that writer, 

 " if the fwelling afcends to the throat it is 

 " prefent death." The difeafe feems to be un- 

 known in this country, and is, perhaps, pecu- 

 liar to warmer chmes. It is of the pleuretic 

 clafs. 



THE STRANGLES 



Is a well-known difeafe, which attacks mod 

 colts, and, according to Gibfon, ufually upon 

 their being firfh put to labour, terminating in a 

 critical abfcefs under the jaws. 



The old Englifh term for this difeafe, was 

 the Strangullion; and Blundevil, after Lau- 

 rentius Ruflius, and the Italian writers, com- 

 pares it to the Cynanche or Angina of the 



human 



