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or accurate Account of the Syraptoms of fuch who^ 
have died of Hunger and Thirft, in Sieges, and at Sea 5, 
though many Inftances have been, and no Notice, 
that I know of, has been taken of their having died 
mad,-delirious or feverifh, though thefe Symptoms 
are fo remarkable and affeding. But fuppofing thefe 
Fads, thefe Cafes will differ very much from this 
before us: For an Animal ftarved to Death purely 
for Want of Food, has the . Gall flowing conti- 
nually into the Cavity of the Intejiines^ unmixed' 
and undiluted with Chyle^ and from thence by the 
LaHeals into the Blood ; fo that in a few Days this 
acrimonious Juice muft become more redundant there, 
than any other Humour ^ which joined with the con- 
ftant Attrition of the Globules in Circulation, muft 
foon render the Blood very acrimonious, rancid and 
alcalin ; that is, muft reduce the whole to a Mafs of 
Putrefadion, capable of ftimulating the Brain and' 
ISferveSy fo as to produce a Fever, Delirium or Mad- 
nefs : But in the Cafe under Conflderation, no Gall 
could enter into the Blood : And therefore this Degree 
of Putrefadion, and the Effeds of it, could not hap- 
pen ^.though it muft be owned, that, through a Want 
of Recruit and Dilution, a lower Degree of Putre- 
fadion of the Blood and Humours muft have followed, 
even in this Cafe, from the continual Attrition in Cir- 
culation •, fuch at leaft as was fufficient to render the 
whole Mafs in a few Days unfit for any of the Ufes 
in the Animal Q'lconomy, or the Funcdionsof Life:. 
And therefore may be juftly fuppofed to have been the 
immediate Caufe of Death : For all the paflive Prin- 
ciples or Materials of Putrefadion, being adually in 
the Subftance of the Bloody and all the adive Princi- 
ples. 
