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The fifhes eaten at Mallicollo, caufed in the evening violent 

 Teachings, gripes and loofenefs, preceded by an uneafinefs fimilar 

 ^ERs. to that v^hichl had felt^ a violent head-ach and pain in the face, 



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with a burning heat, follov^ed immediately after this ; and extended 



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to the hands and legs. The pulfe was 



no means feverifh or 



flrong, as might have been expeded from the great heat which every 

 one felt, but was rather low and weak. About fixteen or eighteen 



perfons who had eaten of the fifli wer 

 had more or lefs the fame fymptoms. 



all ill of th 



poifon 



and 



to which 



muft add the 



The 



P 



ed for feveral 



fame torpor in the extremities, 

 days in the flomach and in all the limbs, with the heat and alfo 

 a giddinefs, which would not fuffer them to walk or hardly to 

 ftand. All along the throat they felt a pain equal to that of an 

 excoriation in that part. In fome few patients the falival glands 

 were fwelled, and difcharged an extraordinary quantity of faliva, 



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fo that it run out of their mouths .involuntarily. In a few a pain- 

 ful erection of the penis was obferved : and fome even found that 



their teeth 



grown 



loofe 



When they recovered 



was 



but 



ilowly, ^nd as often as they were cxpofed to cold, the pain and 

 ftiffnefs of the limbs returned, and upon the whole every evening 

 the iymptoms of .reftleflhefs, pain ai 



d heavinefs were renewed 



nay, after the expiration of .a fortnight when they were quite free 



from pains and other fymptoms, they found themfelves chilly. 



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