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coming of the great Heats, all thofc Accidents returned. 
They who were fo well, as to be in a readinefs to quit the 
Hofpital, relapfed again : Their Legs and Thighs grew 
all Black, and Death often put a Period to their Mife- 
ries. This Diforder might arrive from this, that there 
wasfuch a great quantity of corrofive Ljmpha in them, 
that it was in a manner impoflible for it to* be carried ofl 
by Tranfpiration, fo that by Itagnating in their Bodies 
it grew hot, fermented, fower, and putritiedyfrom thence 
arofe thofe Corrofioiis, Ulcers, and great Impofthumes, 
Corruptions and other Accidents which we fpoke of be- 
fore. 
All thefe Poor People eat very heartily to the laft 
Moment of their Life ; this proceeded from a fharp Hu- 
mour, with which their Stomach always aboundetl, 
which created in them a kind of Fames Canina. 
Nothing isfo apt to corrupt the Blood as long Want ; 
the ufe of ill Foot is Bill worfe ; Cold flops the Circula- 
tion of the Blood, and makes the Blood remain too long 
in the Parts, where it foureth and foon corrupteth •, Sad- 
nefs and Grief (which thefe poor Creatures are fubjeQ 
to) is worfe than all the reft ; and what all thefe may 
do when they meet altogether in one Perfon, we may 
cafily judge. They produced there LymphA^s of difterent 
Colours, with whic^i the Belly, the Breaft, and feveral 
other Parts of their Bodies were fill’d. Thofe Lymph a\ 
were fo Cauftick, that having put our Hands into their 
Cadavers, the Skin of them came off, and .our Faces 
were thereby ulcered ^ fo that we were obliged to rife 
in the Night to wafh one’s Face with frefli Water, to 
take off the Heat and Inflammation of it. 
But that which was very furprifing in this great Di- 
feafe, was, that the Brains of thefe poor Creatures were 
always very found and entire. Thus you have the weak 
Account of the diflaial Effefts of a Difeafe fo etuel, that 
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