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leading and more charadteriftic fymptoms of 

 the difeafe* You will believe that I readily- 

 formed the idea of making this interefting and 

 important cafe an object of very minute at- 

 tention ; and you will feel that the event has 

 impreffed upon my mind a very powerful 

 fenfe of the fubtle malignity of this devouring 

 malady. 



_The patient was certainly very ill, but, to 

 thofe who had not before witneffed the dif- 

 eafe, he did not appear to be in any immediate 

 danger ; nor did Dr. Jackfon feem to think it 

 a cafe of the higheft degree of malignity ; but, 

 alas ! on going to vifit him the following 

 morning, we found our poor foldier a cold and 

 yellow corpfe ! 



