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the Kahirines, that no animal but man is afFeded with this 
diforder ; though, it is faid, a cat paffing from an infedted 
houfe, has carried the contagion. 3. That perfons have often 
remained together in the fame houfe, and entirely under the 
iame circumftances, of whom one has been attacked, and died ; 
and the others never felt the fmalleft inconvenience. 4. That 
a perfon may be aifeded any number of times. 5. That it is 
more fatal to the young than the old. 6. That no climate 
appears to be exempt from it ; yet, 7. that the extremes of 
heat and cold both appear to be adverfe to it. In Conftan- 
linople it is often, but far from being always terminated by the 
tcold of winter, and in Kahira by the heat of fummer ; both 
circumftances being, as may be conjectured, the efFeft of indif- 
pofition for abforption in the fkin, unlefs it be fuppofed that in 
the latter cafe, it may be attributed to the change the air under- 
'^oes from the increafe of the Nile. 
The firft fymptoms are faid to be thirft ; 2. cephalalgia ; 3. a 
ftiff and uneafy fenfation, with rednefs and tumour about the 
eyes j 4. watering of the eyes ; 5. white puftules on the tongue. 
The more advanced fymptoms of buboes, foetor of the breath, 
&c. &c. are well known ; and I have nothing authentic to add 
to them. Not uncommonly, all thefe have fucceffively fhewn 
themfelves, yet the patient has recovered ; in which cafe, where 
fuppuration has had place, the fkin always remains difcoloured, 
commonly of a purple hue. — Many who have been bleeded in 
an early ftage of the diforder, have recovered without any fatal 
fymptoms ; but whether from that or any other caufe, does not 
appear certain. The fame operation is reported to have been 
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