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They might grow lefs in .time,as it happens to Children^ 
wliich are troubled with the Rickets, whofe Bones grow 
dry by little and little as they grow up. 
All they wlio had any difficulty in Breathing, or had 
their Breahs hufl'd^or 'flopp’d up, had there good llore 
of Ljmph.^.pv Matter ; and we often found more or lefs of 
them in their Lungs, according as they were, oppref- 
led. 
We have feen fome Sick Perfons, whofe Breads have * \ 
been fo opprelfed, that tliey died all on a fudden ; in the 
mean while we ibund no Serofity neither in their Breads ; 
nor in their Lungs: .But the. Perk ardium was entirely \ 
faflen’d to the Lungs, and the Lungs were glued to the ^ | 
Pleura and Diaphragma 5 and all the Parts were fo mixed 1 
and blended together with each other, that they all made i 
up but one Mafs or Lump, fo confounded, that one j 
could fcarce dillinguiffi the one from the other: Now as 
the Lungs were Iqueez’d together in the midft of this 
Mafs, they were deprived of their Motion, and the lick 
Perfon was clioak’d for want of Breath. The clofe ad- 
hefion, and confufion of thefe Parts one with another, i 
proceeded from this, that being Ulcered as they were, 
they mull needs fticit to each other. , 
The ordinary or common Scorbutick Perfons have the 
Glands of their Mefcntery much obilrudted and fwell’d ; 
thofe we treat off, have theirs partly corrupted, and Im- 
poflhumes in theSubflance of it. 
In the Liver of fomc few, the Matter or Corruption 
was hardned, and as it were petrified ; their Spleen was 
tiiree times bigger than it fliould be, and fell to pieces as j 
if it had bedn compos’d of coagulated Blood ; and fome- 
times the Kidnies and the Breafl were full of Impofl- 
humes. 
There were fome. Bodies or padavers of thofe of Fif- 
teen, in which, if we fquecz’d betwixt two Fingers 
the end of the Ribs, which began to be feparated from 
the 
