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He had likewise the petechial spots on his breast and back ; and though he was 

 not altogether insensible, was affected with a stupor attended with a sunk pulse, 

 and other symptoms of the distemper. His landlady, who took care of him, in- 

 formed them, that he had been troubled with retchings to vomit, and a head- 

 ach from the beginning, and that for some days past he had been seized with a 

 looseness, and that his stools were very offensive. As the room this person lay 

 in was large and well aired, they did not think it necessary to remove him, but 

 recommended him to the care of Dr. Pate, physician of St. Bartholomew's hos- 

 pital, who attended him till he recovered. 



The 3d was John Dobie, apprentice to Mr. Stibbs, a lad about 1 5 years of 

 age, who lived with his parents in a court by the White Bear in Canon-street. 

 They saw him on the same day with the other two, which was the 14th of his 

 sickness, and the 1 2th since he took to his bed. His mother told them, that 

 some of the journeymen working in Newgate had forced him to go down into 

 the great trunk of the ventilator, in order to bring up a wig, which one of them 

 had thrown into it ; and that, as the machine was then working, he had almost 

 been suffocated with the stench, before they could get him up. That on coming 

 home he complained of a violent head-ach, a great disorder in his stomach, with 

 retchings to vomit, which had never entirely left him. They found him ex- 

 tremely low, with a sunk pulse, a delirium, and an unusual anxiety or oppression 

 about his breast. This last symptom they ascribed to the opiates he was then 

 taking for a looseness, which had come on 2 or 3 days before they saw him. He 

 being in no condition to be moved, and being besides well attended by his mo- 

 ther, and in a well aired chamber, they prescribed to him there, and repeated 

 their visits, till he was quite free of the fever. It was observable, that before he 

 was taken ill, he had been twice let down into the great trunk of the ventilator, 

 when the machine was standing still, without complaining of any ill smell, or 

 receiving any hurt ; but that the last time, when the machine was working, 

 he immediately cried out he was ready to be suffocated ; and the 1 men who 

 helped him out, by receiving the foul steam from the trunk, were both set a 

 vomiting so violently as to bring up blood. 



On the 23d of August, Thos. Wilmot, above-mentioned, called on Dr. Knight, 

 and told him, that after taking the vomit and sudorific, he had immediately re- 

 covered ; but begged him to see his wife, who then lay ill of a fever, at his 

 house in Snow's-fields, Southwark. The doctor suspecting that this woman's in- 

 disposition might be owing to the contagion received from her husband, ac- 

 quainted Dr. P. with it, and carried him to see her. There they were informed, 

 that Wilmot's daughter, a girl of 8 years old, who lay with her parents, had 

 been seized with a fever, soon after her father's recovery ; that she had been ill 

 about a fortnight, and they believed had spots on her breast, but that she had 

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