ticular a Illation of the Symptoms he labour'd under, 
as I could wifti, or the thing requires : but however fome 
things material to our purpofe, as far as we could learn 
from the vulgar, who converft with him in his Illnefs, (for 
he never confulted a PhyficianJ were fuch as thefe, 
namely j That he was of a fwarthy^ lurid Complexion, 
and (\( we may truft the ufual outward Medical Signs) 
oi 2i melanchQlick^temper. The diftempers and fymptoms, 
that afflidedhim were, Fits of the falling Sicknefs ; An 
obftinate §^rtan jigue of above a years continuance ^ 
K deep Jaundies, even to that degree, which is cail'd the 
black, with its conftant confequent and univerfal fettled 
ill habit of Body ; Afenfe of an hard load and prejjure 
athisfiomach ("meaning perhaps his Breajl^ or the upper 
part of the T{egi0n of the Liver ; ) he complain'd much 
of YQtj gxQ:^xJhortnefs of Breath, being almoft conftant- 
ly apprehenfive of choaking ; far fetcht , involuntary 
Sighings, and prodigious palpitations of his Heart were 
the continued mifchiefs, that attended his miferable 
life a great while before death reliev'd him ; he us'd to 
fipcoon very often; and at length died according to the 
judgment of the by-ftanders in the jhiveringfit of his Jl* 
gue, with the Convulfions of an Epilepfy, not without 
foaming ^nd, frothing at his mouth ; this is all I could cre- 
dibly inform my feif concerning the poor man while 
living. 
As to what Vv^as found in the Carkafs, three or four 
Phyficians of us having the fair occafion of a Body iiipri- 
vate wholly at our own difpofe, (which tho harraled v/ith 
fo manyDifeafesyetwas not waited astoitsfleflijdid chiefly 
defign a mufcular DifJeBion, and lo did not dired: a very 
nice particular fcrutiny into every part afFeified , but 
what was obvious at firft fight upon opening the Abdo- 
men and Breaft was enough to raife our v/onder that the 
poor fellow could fubfift one moment with fuch Vifcera. 
The Liver upon deep Incifions appear d bloodlefs, ftuft 
throughout 
