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came from them, was W ateiy, Salt, and Corrofive ; and 
the StinkjWhich came from their Mouth, was intolerable. 
They had hard blew Spots on their Legs and Thighs, 
frequent H^morrhagies, or Bleedings at the Nofe and 
.Fundament, and alfo fo great a Weaknefs in their 
Knees, that they could not go without reeling or dag- 
gering. Thefe were the Symptoms which they Iiad 
common witli other Scorbutick Perfons; now let us fee - 
what they had in particular. 
When we removed thefe Sick. Perfons, we heard a 
fmall clattering of their Bones, which particularMr. 
a Phyfitiaii oi' Rochell, hath mention’d in his Treatife- of 
the Scur'vy^ but he ingenioufly confefleth he knoweth ' 
not the true reafon of it : Here you have it, as I have 
-obferved it by my Experience. , ! 
I obferved at the opening of all tfeofe Bodies or Ca- ’ i 
clavers,-in which we heard the aforefaid little noife, that , 
tlie Epifhyfes were entirely feparated from the Bones, 
which by rubbing againft each other occafioned this- . 
clattering. . 
We have opened feverai young Perfons, in whom wo 
alfo perceived a fmall low noife when they breathed. In 
all thefe fort of Bodies we found, that the G riffles of the 
Sternum were feparated from the Bony part of the Ribs ; - 
and as the Griffles are of a fofter Subffance than the £- i- 
■piphyfesy the noife, which their rubbing produced, was ^ 
greater than that of thofe Bones which rubbed againff ‘ "j 
the Epphyfes.o . f 
They, in whom we heard this noife at the time when • 
they breathed, are all dead, except one young Man, i 
whofe ribs were vifibly reunited to the Griffles, for af- - 
ter his Cure, we heard no more of this noife. ] 
All, thofe,. in whofe Breaffs any Matter or Serofity ' 
were found, had their Ribs feparated from their Gri- 
ifles, and that Bony part of thofe Ribs, which were over 
againlf the .Sternum^ was rotted for the ien'gth of four 
' • Fingers, 
