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had received my linen from his houfe, and I had 
careleflly put on lome of it, even without airing. This 
accident happened many weeks after we were open, 
and his illnefs was induftrioufiy kept a fecret. The 
laft month of my confinement this year pafied very 
heavily with me indeed ; for I found my health much 
difordered. Whether it proceeded from a cold I catch- 
ed in my head by fleeping in the open air in fome 
very windy nights ; from want of exercife ; or from 
the uneafinefs of mind naturally attending our me- 
lancholy fituation, I know not ; but my nerves 
feemed all relaxed, my fpirits in a hate of d ejection 
unknown to me before, and my head fo heavy and 
confufed,that I could neither write nor read for an hour 
together with application or pleafure. Since our 
releafe, I have pafied a month at a garden about an 
hour’s ride from the city, for the fake of exercife and 
frefii air, and find myfelf much relieved by it, tho* 
my head is far from being yet clear. 
Among many particulars relating to the prefent 
plague, that I have heard, the following anecdotes 
feem fomewhat extraordinary; and yet, as they are 
well attefted, I have no reafon to doubt of the truth 
of them; viz. Lafi: year as well as this, there has. 
been more than one inftance of a woman’s being de- 
livered of an infedfed child, with the plague fores 
on its body, tho’ the mother herfelf has been entirely 
free from the difiemper. 
A woman, that fuckled her own child of 5 months, 
was feized with a moft fevere plague, and died after 
a week’s illnefs ; but the child, tho’ it fucked her, and 
lay in the fame bed with her during her whole dif- 
order, 
