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Vitriol, it grew prefently livid or blue, black and iHnk- 
iiig’ and cat up part of the Cheek, fo* that one might 
fee the Teeth thro’ it. 
We have fecn feveral from the Age of Eighteen to the 
Age of Thirty, who were without pain caftdown flu- 
pid and without any Motion,,; They had their Mouth 
open, tlieir Eyes funk iii, their Looks frightful, and ap- 
peared rather like Statues chan Men. 
Atque mimi frorfum 'vires totius^ omne 
hanguebAt corpus f lethi jam limine in iffo. 
• Q avail oculi^ cava tem^ora^ frigida fellis^ 
Diirdc[uey inhorrebat riBum — ■ - . . 
All thefe Perfonshad no apparent Sicknefs, only their' 
Gums were Ulcered ; their Skin was fmooth and fair, 
without any Spots or Hardnefs : Yet we found their 
Mufcles were Gangrened, and all wet with a black cor- 
rupted Blood, and in handling ©f them, they fell into 
Pieces in our Hands. 
There was a Man who had a Carbuncle on his Inftep, 
his Lips and his Noftrils were chopped, and a ftinking 
Water flow’d gently from his Noftrils, This Man lin- 
ger’d out a longtime in a dying Condition; His Cada-- 
ver made, me afraid, I durft- not open it. 
A Young Man, who as to all outward appearance 
fcem’d not to be very 111, died fuddenly. We found his 
Idertcardium was fo eaten up, that there remain’d but a 
little of it, and his Heart was Ulcer’d all about very 
deeply. 
Scorbutick Perfons are commonly better in the- Sum- 
mer, than they are in the Winter, which may proceed 
from their great T ranfpiration. On the Cither fide, thefe 
weredndiflerentiy well from the Month of Agrily to the 
beginning of ’^une^ the.Spots, hardnefs, and other Ac- 
cidents oL.thc.Scurvey then difappearing ^ but on the 
coming 
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