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them died fcorch’d and fuffocated by a Plame forcing 
itfelf from the Stomach. 
The mod celebrated Borelli relates how he was 
told, that a Woman vomited Flames in the Point 
of Death: You may read, fays he, in Bartolinus de 
Luce-> and in Eufebius Nier ember genfs his Hiftory 
Nat. peregrin, how fuch Accidents did often happen 
in great Drinkers of Wine and Brandy : Where is 
related alfo, how Fire came out from the privy 
Parts of a Woman. 
My Lord Bacon , in his Nat. Univ . Hiji. allures, 
he had feen a Woman’s Belly fparkling like Fire j 
and truly fuch Flames would often rife in us, if the 
natural Moifture did not quench them ; as Lucretius 
obferves, from Verle 8 6 8. Lib. IV. and VerJ'e 1065 . 
Lib. VI. Moreover, Marcellas c Donatus , in his 
Mirab. Hift. Medic. Lib. VI. Cap. 4. intituled, Of 
a new Diftemper, fays, Albertus Krantzius y Lib. 
V. of his Saxon Hiftory, Thar, in the Time of 
Godfrey of Bologne his Chriftian War, in the Terri- 
tory of Niverva or Nivers , People were burning 
of inviftble Fire in their Entrails, and fome had cut 
off a Foot or an Hand where the Burning began, 
that it fhould not go further. Ezekiel de Cajlro, in 
the abovefaidWorkof his, of Lambent Fire , relates the 
famous Inftance of Alexandrians Megetius , a Phy- 
fician, who, from the Vertebra of the Coxa , after 
great Pain, relates how Fire came out, which burn’d 
the Eyes, as Simplicius and Bhilafeus , Eye- witneftes, 
did atteft. 
After all thefe Inftances, what Wonder is there 
in the Cafe of our old Lady ? Her Dulnels before 
going to Bed was an Effedt of too much Heat concen- 
trated 
