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lefr breaft; her pulfe was quick, foft and fluttering. The 

 heat of her body was not very great, and her fkin was 

 tnoift; her face was fwelled; (he had a confiderable pro- 

 firation of ftrength, with a very great difEcuhy of breath- 

 ing; a very remarkable hollow cough; and a peculiar 

 change in the tone of her voice. The next day her dif- 

 ficulty of breathing was increafed, and ilie drew her breath 

 in the manner before defcribed, as if the air was forced 

 through too narrow a paffage, fo that fhe feemed incapa- 

 ble of filling her h.m9.s : She was exceedingly reftlcfs, tol- 

 fing perpetually from fide to fide, was fenfible, and wlica 





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Iked Si quduon^ woukl give a pertinent anfwer, but 

 otherways flic appeared dull and comatous. 



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^, fymptoms continued, or rather increafed, until! the third 

 mght, on which fhe had five or lix loofe ftools, and died 

 early in the morning. * 



Upon examining the body, which was done on the af- 

 ternoon of the day fhe died, I found the fauces, uvula, 

 tonfils, and root of the tongue interfperfed with floughs, 

 which ftill retained their whitifh colour. Upon removing 



'N/lhem, the parts underneath appeared rather pale than in- 

 flamed. I perceived no putrid fmell from them, nor was 

 the corps in the leaft offenfive. The oefophagus appeared 

 as in a found flate. The epiglottis was a little inflamed, 

 on its external furface, and on the inner fide, togetTier 

 with the infide of the whole larynx, was covered with the 

 fame tough white floughs, as the glands of the fauces. 

 The whole trachea, from the larynx down to its divifion 

 in the lungs, v/as lined with an infpiflated mucus, in form 

 of a membrane, remarkably tough and firm,;,, which, when 

 it came to the firft fubdivifions of the trachea, feemed to 

 ^row thin and difappear: It was fo tough as to require no 

 inconfiderable force to tear it, and came out whole from 



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the trachea, Vv^hieh it left with much eafe: and refcmbled 



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more than any thing, both in thicknefs and appearance, a 

 fheath of thin fliammoy leather. The inner membrane of 

 of the trachea was flightly inflamed; the Uines too an- 

 peared InHamed as in peripneumonic cafes i particularly 



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