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a Diftention and Inflammation muft appear 
fomewhere : For that it is an Inflammation, 
is manifeft from its being attended with a 
Fever , Thirjl , Dilirium, Dry , White, or 
Brown 'Tongue, and other like Symptoms. 
5. That this Virus is of a very diffufive 
contagious Nature, therefore moll likely to 
be a Venine, Alcaline, Volatile Salt . That 
it is of a poilonous Nature, is too vifibly 
feen and felt from its Effedts : That it is 
alcaline, appears from the Heat, Fever, 
and Thirfl: ; that it is contagious, is known 
from its fpeedy Communication from one 
Animal to another, by Touch, Depreflion 
with the Teeth, without a Wound or Saliva 
falling on the very Cloaths, that it is diffu- 
five is evident from its fpeedily affedling 
and turning all the animal Fluids to its 
own Nature $ that it is a Salt, and an alca- 
line Salt, is alfo plain from its producing 
the like Effects with that fort of Salts, as 
Heat, Thirjl, and parching the Bodies . 
6. Their being afraid of Drinkables, is from 
their Inability to fwallow, becaufe of the 
Inflammation of the Parts, w T hich at lafl: is 
communicated to the Wind-pipe $ hence 
that fhrill Noife wherewith they breathe. 
7. From all which taken together, we fee 
how 
