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f rated in her Breaft, which hindered the Perfpiration 
through the Pores of her Body ; which is calculated 
to about 40 Ounces per Night. Her Afhes, found 
at four Feet Diftance from her Bed, are a plain Argu- 
ment, that (he, by natural Inftindt, rofe up to cool 
her Heat, and perhaps was going to open a Win- 
dow. 
The learned Marquis Scipio Maffei was told by 
Count Atimis of Gorizia , who palled through Ce- 
fena a few Days after the Accident, that he heard fay 
there, how the old Lady was ufed, when fhe felt her- 
felf indifpofed, to bathe all her Body with campho- 
rated Spirit of Wine ; and fhe did it perhaps that very 
Night. This is not a Circumflance of any Moment; 
for the beft Opinion is that of the internal Heat and 
Fire ; which, by having been kindled in the Entrails, 
naturally tended upwards; finding the Way eafier, and 
the Matter more umftuous and combuftible, left the 
Legs untouch’d; which may have been faved alfo, 
by remaining cut off at the Combuftion of the Ten- 
dons, where they join with the Knees. The Thighs 
were too near the Origin of the Fire, and therefore 
were alfo burnt by it ; which was certainly increafed 
by the Urine and Excrements, a very combuftible 
Matter, as one may fee by its Phofphorus. Galenus 
( Clajf. 1. Lib. III. de Temper am.') fays, That the 
Dung of a Dove was fufficient to fet Fire to a whole 
Houfe: And the learned Father Cafatz , a Jefuit, in. 
his Thyf. Differt. Part 2, p. 48. relates to have 
heard a worthy Gentleman fay, That, from great 
Quantities ofthe Dung of Doves, Flights of which ufed, 
for many Years, nay, Ages, to build under the Roof 
of the great Church of Tifa, fprung originally the Fire 
which 
