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dogs were gnawing her. The blacknefs and (welling 
advanced upwards, by flow degrees, till they reached 
the knee, where the fle(h broke, and a great dif- 
charge followed. In a little time, the fie(h of her 
leg putrified, and came off at the ancle, together 
with the whole foot, leaving the leg-bones bare. 
Her other foot and leg were affedted in a few days, 
and decayed, nearly by the fame degrees, and in the 
fame manner. She has now an abfcefs formed in 
one of her thighs. 
Mary, the mother, was feized, within a few hours 
of her daughter’s firft feizure, with the fame violent 
pain under her left foot, or (as fine fometimes fays) 
in her left leg. Her toes, foot, and leg, were affedted 
in the fame manner as her daughter’s ; and, in a few 
days, her other foot and leg fuffered in like manner. 
The flefh of one leg has feparated, and come off at 
the knee, leaving the bones bare, which (lie will not, 
at prefent, fuffer to be taken off. The other foot has 
rotted off at the ancle. Her hands, and a part of her 
arms, have been, from the firft attack, without fen- 
fation ; and her fingers have been contradted. 
In four or five days after the eideft daughter and 
the mother were firft affedted, Elizabeth, aged four- 
teen years, Sarah, aged ten, Robert, aged fix, and 
Edward, aged four, were all taken, on the fame day, 
with violent pains in the feet and legs, chiefly in the 
left. 
Elizabeth was feized only in one leg and foot, 
which, during three weeks, (he could not fet on the 
ground ; but (food all that time on the other foot, 
leaning againft the chimney : after which, being taken 
in the fame manner in the other foot, (lie was obliged 
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