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jin Account of the DlJfcSfion of three Pcrfons who died of the Ma- 



lignant 

 1798. 

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Epidemic that prevailed 



Bojl. 



the Summer of 



By ISAAC RAND and ]OHn WARREN, MZ? 



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Bofton^ September 8, 1798. 



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HE gteat advantage to be derived to mankind from an 



infpeiflLoa of the bodies of fuch as have died of fo formidable 

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bvious to all. 



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following cafes of dilTedion may throw fome light on the na- 

 ture of the difeafe as it prevails in this town, and may, we 

 hope, be of fome ufe in invefligating the treatment beft adapt- 

 ed to the purpofe of checking or fupprefling its deftrudUve 



ravages. * 



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The firfl cafe was of a man, who died on the fixth day from 

 the feizure, and as no application was made to a phyfician till 

 the firft flage of the difeafe had nearly expired, the flate of the 

 organs may be confidered in a great meafure as the natural 

 efFed of the difeafe, tindifturbed by art. 



In the cavity of the cheft, the lungs were remarkably afFed- 

 ed ; they contained an uncommon quantity of dark blood in 



\smr veiTels, which rendered them apparently more denfe than 



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