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fcaly ; fo that I often apprehended a mortification. 
She had a cough, a laborious refpiration, and fome- 
times a fpitting of blood, from the coardtation of her 
breaft, all its bones plying inwardly. She was capa- 
ble of no other motion but of turning her head on 
both fides, ftirring her left arm in the fhoulder-joint 
only, and feparating her fingers, but not bending 
them. She had her menfes regularly, till about 
three months before her death. She generally had 
a low fever, inward heat, fweats, and reftleffnefs. 
She took antifcorbutics during the months of June 
and July, to no purpofe. Her fever ran very high 
in Auguft, attended with deliriums, headachs, rav- 
ings, and Jubfultus tendinum. 
A little before her death came on a deafnefs, a 
dimnefs of fight, a fcalding of her eyes, and a con- 
ftant dropping ; violent pains in her head ; in fhort, 
a great weaknefs in all the organs, which fhew’d 
how much the head was then affedted. 
The diftortion of her limbs went on fo faff in Auguft 
and September, that almoft every third day I could 
obferve fomething new; efpecially the left foot, during 
that time, came down gradually near 18 inches from 
under her ear, where it lay before. It was alfo ob- 
ferved in Auguft, that her neck grew vifibly ftnaller, 
the thorax much narrower. I then alfo remarked, 
that the napkins, upon which fhe fpit, grew black 
in the wafhing, and ftained as from the mercurial 
ointment ; tho' I could not fufpedt it, as I could not 
learn fhe had ever ufed any mercury. In a month 
after, I obferved the fame thing on all the linen, 
that touched her fkin. I got a napkin rubbed with 
foap, then dried, and afterwards waflied. This 
method 
