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Symptoms 
of the Fe- 
ver. 
A Yellow- 
nefs appear- 
ing in the 
Eyes, a bad 
Symptom. 
The Tex- 
ture of the 
Blood. 
The Natural Hiftory of the Book IL. 
~The Patient is commonly feized with a fhivering Fit, as in an poe 
which lafts an Hour or two, more or lefs ; and the Danger 1s guefled at, 
according to the Severity and Continuance of the Ague. # e 
After the fhivering Fit, a violent Fever comes on, with exceflive ains 
in the Head, Back, and Limbs, Lofs of Strength and Spirits, with great 
Dejection of Mind, infatiable Thirft and Reftlefnefs, and fometimes too 
with a Vomiting, attended with Pains in the Head; the Eyes being red, 
and that Rednefs in a few Days turning toa Yellownefs. 
If the Patient turns yellow foon, he hath fcarce a Chance for Life ; 
and the fooner he does fo, the worfe. : : { 
The Pain in the Head is often very great, when firft feized with this 
Fever. i 
After fome Days are paft, this Pain abates, as well as the Fever; and 
the Patient falls into a breathing Sweat, and a temperate Heat, fo that 
he appears to be better; but, on a narrow View, a Yellownefs appears in 
his Eyes and Skin, and he is vifibly worfe. ” 
About this Time he fometimes {pits Blood, and that by Mouthfuls ; 
as this continues, he grows cold, and his Pulfe abates, till at laft it is quite 
gone ; and the Patient becomes almoft as cold as a Stone, and continues 
in that State with a compofed fedate Mind. 
In this Condition he may perhaps live Twelve Hours without any fen- 
fible Pulfe or Heat, and then expire. 
Such were the Symptoms and Progrefs of this Fever in theYear 1715. 
Sometimes likewife the Patients burft out with bleeding at the 4zus, 
and foon after die ; and fometimes likewife at the Nofe, by which means 
they have been relieved ; but when the Blood iffues from thence but in 
few aa it is a bad Prognoftic, and is generally the Harbinger of 
Death. 
In moft of thefe Cafes, the Patients are generally hot and dry ; the 
Blood taken from them very red, and fcarce will coagulate; the Grume 
fwimming upon the Surface of the Serum in a thin Leaf, having fcarce 
any Confiftence. | 
The Patients have likewife often intolerable Pains in and about the 
Stomach: Sometimes with thofe Pains they fhall have a Livor, and the 
plain Marks of a Sphacelus fhall poffefs the greateft Part of the Abdo- 
men before they die, particularly the Region of the Stomach and Liver 
It often alfo happens, that the fick Perfon thall lie almoft ftupid; aiid 
being asked how he does, fay, He is very well ; at other times he _ 
under the greateft Agonies, and Fits of Groanings. 
A loofe ‘Tooth being drawn from a Perfon who had the Fever ve 
feverely, there iffued out from the Hole a great Quantity of black ftink 
ing Blood, which ftill kept oozing till the third Day, on which the P il 
died in great Agonies and Convulfions. ; Spent 
After Death the Corps of fuch appear livid in fom 
or elfe marked with peftilential Sigel Castiulet or eee es 
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