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ing his body, the heart was double the size naturally, containing a black thick 

 blood : his lungs were besprinkled with livid spots : the gall-bladder full of a 

 black and greenish bile. 



4th. Jean Raynaud, a cook, about 25 years of age, of a melancholy tempera- 

 ment, had the whole habit of his body covered with a purple livid colour, and 

 a bubo under his left axilla ; and he died in a delirious phrenzy. We found in 

 his body 2 abscesses, one between the teguments and the left great pectoral 

 muscle, and the other in the breast between the sternum and the mediastinum : 

 his heart was very large, filled with black thick blood : the right auricle was 3 

 inches broad : the left was in its natural state : his lungs were covered with 

 small livid spots, remaining soft and pliant, without any hardness in their sub- 

 stance. The liver was larger and harder than ordinary, and was also full of livid 

 purple spots ; and the like were found in the substance of his brain, all the 

 vessels of which were filled with black thick blood. 



5th. Jaques Audibert, about 35 years of age, of a melancholy complexion, 

 4 months after he had been cured of the plague, the fnark of which was a bubo 

 in the fold of the right groin, which came well to a suppuration, was attacked 

 afresh with three carbuncles ; one in the middle of the arm, and the other two 

 in the fore-arm. He had but little fever, with some small sickness at stomach ; 

 but a delirium, coming of a sudden, carried him off. On opening his body, we 

 found the heart of a prodigious size : the right auricle being 5 inches broad ; 

 and the left 3: a little imposthume on the body of the aorta : the lungs were 

 covered with livid spots; and the liver appeared gangrenous: the gall-bladder 

 was of a very black colour : the duodenum and the rectum were inflamed. 



6th. Venture Cajole, about 40 years of age, of a melancholy temperament, 

 died without any outward eruption on the 3d day, of a violent fever, with a 

 sleepiness. We found in the body the mediastinum torn towards the upper 

 part : the pericardium was of a livid colour : the heart larger than in its natural 

 state, by the swelling of its ventricles full of black thick blood, as in the others: 

 the liver also was very large, and of a livid colour, with a carbuncular pustule 

 on the side of the gall-bladder; and this was filled with very black bile. 



7th. Margueritte Bachaire, 18 years of age, of a lively vigorous constitution, 

 having 2 carbuncular pustules on the middle and inside of the thigh, with a 

 sharp pain in the head, died delirious. We found, in her body, the coverings 

 of the brain of a blackish red : the cortical part of a livid colour, and the 

 medullary sprinkled with a few black spots : the heart of a prodigious size, full 

 of a thick black blood : the liver also very large, and the gall-bladder very full 

 of a black and green bile. There were several livid spots on the surface of the 

 intestines. 



