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within his reach, and preferred the hard floor to 

 his bed. The pulse now sinks ; respiration becomes 

 laborious ; the countenance collapsed ; the lustre of 

 the eye gone. For some hours, he lies in a state 

 of insensibility before death ; at other times, expires 

 after some convulsive exertion, or ineflPectual effort 

 to vomit. The tongue is sometimes but little altered 

 during the course of the fever ; and if loaded in the 

 early stages, it often became clean and of a vivid 

 red before death. 



Such was the regular succession of symptoms 

 which characterized this fever, but of longer or 

 shorter duration, according to the violence of the 

 disease, or strength of the powers of hfe to resist it. 



In weakly habits, the vascular action at the begin- 

 ning was less marked ; and in these cases, the fev«r 

 was generally more protracted, and the patient ex- 

 pired unaffected by the laborious respiration and 

 convulsive motions which attended the last struggles 

 of life in the more violent degrees of the fever. 

 Very often the patient retained his senses till within 

 a few minutes of his death, and sometimes would 

 predict, with considerable precision, the hour of his 

 dissolution. 



In the early stages of the worst cases, there was 

 much anxiety in the countenance of the patient. 



