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ftrong a Conftitution, he was feiz'd alfo with a pain i^^ 
his Head, wasfomewhat Feverifh, fometimes better, fome- 
times worfe, cough'd much, jiad a good ftomach, eat 
heartily, but could drink nothrng. 1 know not what I 
ail, fays he, I cannot fwallow any Beer, &c. and -fo 
langh'd at it. When he went out of door,tho there was but 
a little North Windv yet he always ran as if it had been 
for his life 5 when they ask'd him why he did fo, he told 
them he could not tell^ — but that the Wind would needs 
ftop his breath. day or two after tlm he was worfe, 
and vomited a ftrange nafty fort of Matter, lik^ black 
Blood, v\hich Jftunk like Sallet Oyl, but much ftronger 5 
which he did feveral times 5 alter which he would be 
pretty well, and walk about, but moft commonly ran a 
faft as ever he could, firft out oi one corner, then into 
another, then up flairs, then down again, as if it was for 
iiis lite* But upon the third day of his confinement with- 
in doors he grew perteftly mad, would ttart, and leap, 
and twift his Hands and Arms together, point at people, 
and laugh and talk any thing that came in his mind. In 
fome of his fits he was fo ftrong that he was too hard 
for four young men to hold him down in the Chair • 
where he fat : but as foon as they were over he was 
lightfome, and laugfrd, and talk*d, but all his difcourfe 
was of fighting, and how if that they would but let 
him alone, he would leap upon them, and bite, and 
tear them to pieces : And when one faid unto him, 
that he wasfure that he would not hurt him, he'd been 
always his Friend 5 he anfwer'd ftarply, that friends and 
foes were all alike to him, he'd tear them all in pieces, &c. 
About an hour after his fit came again, which foon made 
him fpeechlefs, feiz'd wholly . upon his Brain, and then 
he dy'd juft before the Phyfician came. 
Sir, I will not here prefume to fearch in to the Particles 
of thisPoyfon, what figure they are of, and how they 
multiply, how they are able to infect a mafs of other 
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