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in at the fame time did not fweat ; after fevcn[ 
i Minutes he panted much for Breath, and in a 
Quarter of an Hour expreffed very great Un- 
cafinefs, foon after which he grew faint and 
died in twenty eight Minutes : He drivelled 
all the time a great Qiiantity of red Foam, 
which did ftink fo intolerably, that a ftrong 
labouring Man who went near it, was almofl: 
ftruck down in an inftant with this Stench. 
52. He obferves in this Experiment the 
dire Effeds of this Degree of Heat, how foon 
it brought on a moft acute Diftemper, with 
very violent and mortal Symptoms : How fud- 
denly the Humours were changed, from a 
healthy to a naufeous putrid State, more pef- 
tilential and deadly than the rotteneft Carcafe, 
how greatly the Humours mufl: be altered in 
fo (hort a time, to make the Saliva red. He 
alfo juftly obferves that thefe were not the mere 
Effeds of the Heat of the Stove ; for if the 
Flefli of a dead Animal had been hung up 
there, it would have dried, and not have turn- 
ed to peftilential Corruption ; which muft 
therefore arife from the Fridioii caufed by 
the vital Motion of the Blood in the Lungs ; 
where it being in this cafe not at all refrige, 
rated, did thereby acquire a greater Heat 
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