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Thefe and other neceiTary Precautions were taken, 
and by publick Edid enjoyned from July u. 1708. to 
February 27. 1709. Notwithftanding all which, the Di- 
ffemper gradually infinuated itfelf: For in the Month of 
March , 1709. there died out of one Diftrid of the old 
Town, called Raumbaunt^ feven Perfons : The eight re- 
maining was a young Girl, who by order of the Magi- 
ftrates was fent to the Hofpital, having already fome 
ill Symptoms, as Bubo’s, about her 5 which being yet 
unknown, one would not have prefently taken for Pe- 
ftiiential, but rather Venereal : But they foon (hew’d 
their Epidemick Kind, by feizing upon other Children 
that were kept in the fame Rooms* 
In the fame Month I had under cure a Polifh Larly 
that was come hither from JariJlarv, and labour d under 
a Chachcxy and Tympany. In a Fortnights time fbe re- 
cover’d fo well, that foon after fhe went to Church : 
But it was not long before fhe fell ill again, being taken 
with a flow Fever and a fudden Proftration of Strength, 
and died within 8 Days. When they came to wafh her 
dead Body, there was found on the lower Belly a brown- 
ifh red Swelling about the bignefs of a fmall Hen Egg, 
which I afterwards judged to be a Furunculus- So much 
I could then guefs, that it was not a common Swelling $ 
for it was furrounded with a Lead- colour’d Circle, from 
which proceeded feveral blue Rays in the adjacent 
Parts. 
However, this was not a fufficient Ground to de- 
monftrate or to give publick Notice, that the Contagion 
was already amongft us, feeing our Magiftrates had at 
this time publifh’d an Edid, That no body, by reafon of 
any extraordinary Sicknefs, fhould immediately fpread 
a falfe Account thereof, to the Prejudice of this Place 5 
which fome might do either thro’ Malice or Inadver- 
tency, and report it to Foreign Parts 5 by which the 
Inhabitants might be terrify’d, and our Trade and Com- 
merce. 
