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“ care ought to be taken of this, and lefs of the men. 
“ Your nation differs much from Italy or Marfeilles, 
“ where a fldp may, and often does, arrive in eight 
“ days; for which reafon, tho’ it be neceflary to look 
u after the men, as well as the goods, dill however 
tc they make a great didindtion. You make none.” 
It is obfervable, that from the beginning to the 
flatus or acme of the difeafe, they almod all die : 
afterwards its violence begins to abate, and about the 
end of the feafon mod people recover. 
The fymptoms of the diftemper are chiefly ; irre- 
gular fits of heat and cold ; fhiverings ; violent head- 
ach, and Teachings, for the fird three or four days ; 
great anxiety about the frcecordia , & c. both before 
and after the eruptions ; a wild daring countenance ; 
fweats for the mod part about the head and bread 
only, at the fame time the extremities cold ; a dry 
parched yellow-furred tongue. The more violent 
thofe fymptoms are, the greater the danger ; et e con- 
tra. Some are delirious, and raving ; others to a 
great degree dupid and dull : both thefe are fatal ap- 
pearances. Some die in f or 6 days ; fome outlive 
20 days, and then die: fome walk the dreets for 
many days, and afterwards die. Bleeding at the nofe 
is reckoned a falutary lign. 
A fwelling in the throat is a common fymptom ; 
for which if you bleed, it proves almod always fatal: 
for it is fo far from abating this fymptom, that after 
it a greater difficulty of breathing enfues, and the 
patient feldom furvives it above 3 or 4 hours. 
The phyfical writers are divided as to the expedi- 
ency of bleeding in the plague, fome contending for 
it warmly, others as warmly condemning it The 
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