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January was remarkably mild. It is not very uncom- 
mon for one limb to be loft by a fphacelus, attended 
with the fame fymptoms, as in thefe cafes; but it is 
very extraordinary, that a diforder of this kind ftiould 
run through a whole family, with fuch amazing 
'violence and rapidity. 
A nurfe, who has lived with them from the be- 
ginning of their illnefs, has not been affefted. She 
did not live in the houfe with them before ; but ufed 
to be with them frequently. 
LXXXIV. FxtraEl of a Letter from the 
Reverend James Bones, M. A. Mmifler 
of Wattifham, near Stowmarket in Suf- 
folk, to George Baker, M. D . F. R. S, 
relating to the Cafe of Mortificatio7i of 
Limbs in a Family there . 
Read May 6 , fTT^HE following hiftory of the fufFer- 
1762. ings 0 p a p Qor f am qy j j n m y pandj 
of Wattifham, is as circumftatially exadt as I can give 
it you. 
On Sunday, January 10, Mary, daughter of John 
and Mary Downing, fixteen years old, felt a violent 
pain in her left-leg, which, in an hour or two, af- 
fe&ed likewile her foot, and particularly her toes. 
On the next day, her toes were much fwolen, and 
black fpots appeared on them. By degrees, the whole 
foot became fwolen, and black. The pain, which 
waa now chiefly in her toes, was, as fhe fays, as if 
