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•Some time after this, Mr. Breach the apothecary 
informed us, that he was again employ’d in Thomas 
Wilmot’s family ; for that Elizabeth Marfhall, his 
filler- in-law, after nurfing his wife, was taken ill of 
the fame kind of fever, and defired our afiiftance. 
This perfon we found in the fame bed, and in the 
fame condition, in which we had feen her fitter fome 
time before j and in the room with her, in another 
bed, a fon of Wilmot’s, a boy of nine years old, ill 
of the fame diftemper. The former had been at- 
tack'd on the i 5 of September, and the latter the day 
before. The woman’s fever ran out the ordinary 
length of 1 6 or 17 days, but the boy’s came fome 
days fooner to a criiis, and was all along of a milder 
nature. She recover’d very flowly, complaining of 
great weaknefs, deafnefs, and a confufion in her head, 
the ordinary confequence of thefe malignant fevers. 
One day, in my return from this liotife, I call’d at 
St. Thomas’s hofpital, to inquire for one William 
Thomfon, a lad of about 1 6 years of age, who, as 
Wilmot then told me, was another of Mr. Stibbs’s 
journeymen, and had been taken ill by working in 
Newgate, fince the three he had mention’d before. 
Th is lad was recover’d, but not yet dilmifs’d. He 
laid, that upon finding himfelf growing ill, lie had 
left his work, and kept at home for about a week, 
complaining of a pain in the hinder part of his head, 
and in his back, of a trembling of his hands, and 
of reftlefs nights ; that his. feverilh indifpofition in- 
creafing, he had been obliged to take to his bed, where 
lie lay about eight days before he was font, to the ho- 
fpital. The apothecary added, that he had continued 
under their care about the fame number of days before 
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