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difpeople U/hoIe Kingdoms, and foon leave the World 
, wafte and deftitute of Maoktod. 
No Example of any Epidemick Diftcmper feems in 
all refpefts to come nearer in competition with our late 
general Cold, than the tranfieot Fever, that fo ftrangely 
intheYeari688 prevailed io thefe Countries, which I 
look upon to haVe been the moPc univerfal Fever, as 
this the moil univerfal Cold, that perhaps has ever ap- 
peared fo that it will not be improper ro infert here 'the 
Hiftory in Ihort of that Remarkable Diftemper. 
About the beginning of July i688. this Ihort fort of 
Fever was firft obferved to appear here in DuUin^ it fo 
univerfally feized all forts of Men whatever, that I then 
made an eftimate not above oo-e in fifteen efcaped. It be- 
gan, as generally Fevers do, with a chilnefs and ihivering 
all over, like that of an Ague, but not fo violent, which 
foon broke out into a dry burning Heat, with great uo- 
eafinefs that commonly confin'd them to their Beds^ where 
they palled the enfuing Night very reftleft; they com- 
plained likewiCe of Giddinefs, and a dull paio in their 
Heads, chiefly about their Eyes, with unfettled pains in 
their Limbs, and about the fmali of their Back, a fore- 
nefs all over their FleOi, a lofs of Appetite, with a Nau-^ 
fea or aptnefs to Vomitjan unufual ill tad in their Mouths, 
yet little or no Thirft: And the' thefe Symptoms wer© 
very violent for a time, yet they did not continue long, 
for about the fecond day of the Diftemper the Patient 
ufualiy of himielf fell into a Sweat, (oolefs 'twas pre- 
vented by letting Blood, which however beneficial io 
other Fevers, I found manifeftly retarded the Progrefs of 
this) and if the Sweat was eocourag-ed for five or fix 
hours by laying on more Cbaths, or taking fome Sudo- 
rifick Medicine, moft of the Diforders before, mentioned 
would entirely difappear.or at leaft very much abate, 
Tiic Giddinefs of their Head, and want of Appetite 
would often continue fome days afterwards, but: with 
the 
