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I have here only given you a general account of my 
Difledions, in the three different Stages of cheDifeafe; 
for as the difference was but fmall, and the Difeafe i 
incurable, it could neither be ufeful nor pleafant to the j 
Reader, to have each particular Difledion at large, tho* j 
! have now the Minutes by me. But the following j 
Cafes being very extraordinary, I coud not omit the 
mention of them, viz. In one of them the Bile was Pe- 
trified in its Veffels, and refembled a Tree of Corral, 
but of a dark yellow Colour, and brittle Subftance. 
In another there were feveral Inflammations on the Li- 
ver, fbme as large as a half Crown, cracked round the 
Edges, and appeared feparating from the found parr# 
like a Peffilential Carbuncle. 
In a Third, the Liquor contained in the Perieardium ; 
(for Lubricating the Heart in its Motion^ appeared like \ 
the fubfidings of Calcis ; and had excoriated, and 
given as yellow a Colour to the whole Surface of the 
'Heart and Pericardium, as Aqua Calcis cou’d pofTibly i" 
have done. S 
In giving my Opinion of this Diftemper, I muff beg 
leave to premife, that all Cows have naturally a Pur- 
gation by the A^us for five or fix Weeks in the Spring, 
from (as the Cow-keepers term it) the frimnefs of the f 
Grafs ; during which time they are brisk and lively, their 
Milk becomes thinner, and of a blewifli Colour, 
fweeterto the Tafte ; and in greater Plenty; but the 
Spring preceeding this Diftemper, v.'as all over Europe 
fo dry, that the like has not been known in the Me- 
mory of any one living ; the confequence of which was 
little Grafs, and that lo dry and void of that frimnefs 
which it has in other Years, that I could not hear of 
one Cow keeper, who had obferved his Cows to have 
that Purgation in the fame degree as ufual ; and very 
l^w who had obferved any at all. They all agreed 
