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texture, even after death, more tender then the red - . 
The other vifcera had not the lead change of their 
coiour, but exhibited a. found and natural appear- 
ance. 
Another child, which I faw, was feized with a dvf- 
entery, attended with a very ardent fever; which, not- 
withstanding my utmoft endeavours to relieve it, car- 
ried off the poor infant on the third day. Several, 
almoff the whole, of this child’s difcharges by ftool 
were nothing but blood. Upon opening the body 
after death, the whole of the inteffines were in a very 
great degree inflamed, and of an intenfely deep red 
colour, and the contents of the abdomen were inex- 
preflibly fetid. 
Throughout the whole courfe of the difeafe, keep- 
ing the patient moderately warm and promoting his 
perforation, was of great importance; and the not 
Efficiently attending to this, I more than once faw 
followed by fatal effects. 
CVI. Viro incly to ac de Republica Liter aria 
meritijftmo D. C. Morton, Med. Do&. So- 
cietati Regime Scientiaru??i Londincnfi ah 
ABis S. P. D. Joannes Lulofs. 
Read , * 62 ' XT ^ ^ m °i'bo fic fatis diuturno fuiflem 
2 ' IX retentus, dudum, Vir fpedatiffime, 
ad te dediffem literas, gratias adturus, quod me quo- 
queilluftri focietatis Regiac Pracfldi ac reliquis ejufdem 
jnembris ita commendare volueris, ut, quantum mihi 
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