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the confequences of the'too immoderate ufe of the infulion of the 



pepper- root. 



But the fcales of the morbous exfoliation, are not fo 



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harila to the touch as ihofe caufed by fea- water, and there is gene- 

 rally a kind of tuftiour or fwelling under it. In a higher degree of 

 4:lie difeafe I obferved :fome ulcers in the white blotches, which 

 appeared as if they were .extending under .the (kia, honey-combed, 

 ;and were running with red orifices furrounded. by a.:red fungous 

 flefh, fometimes between the white .fpots a. livid or reddifh hue of 

 the part affeded might be obferved. 



In -the fecond kind or Q^ecies >of this .terrible diforder, I faw 

 feveral roundilli or. oblong purple elevations on the fkin, of the fize 

 of a crown piece. Some .of .them looked as if a part had been 



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rotten, and fallen out and had turned into an ulcer filled with red 



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fungofities. At .E-Aoowc^ or Middleburgh, in the Friendly- ifles, 

 a woman was affli(5ted with this kind, whofe face fwelled to an 



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was one .red, livid, and 



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was entirely rotten and had dropped off, the cheeks were of a red 

 fpungy fubilance. The eyes furik deep in the head, fed and fore :: 

 in a word, fhe was a mofi: pitiable and miferable objedl. 



I faw ftill another kind of the fame difeafe, in ithe 'fame ille df 

 E'Aoowe. The back and left fhoulder of a man as far as his 

 upper arm was covered with a kind of ulcer, which was a quarter 



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