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On the 30th of November 1743, the wife of a 
writing- mafter, being of a robuft habit of body, and 
in perfe( 5 t health, was fuddenly feized with a violent 
colic in her ftomach, and died in three hours. I 
found three gangrenous places at the upper orifice of 
the ftomach. I doubt whether ever any diftemper 
could have deferved the name of a plague more than 
this, if it had been epidemical. 
In the courfe of the year 174-}., we had a great 
number of gouty rheumatifms, with fevers. The 
patients were deprived of the ufe of their limbs ; 
the miliary eruption often came on, and feemed to 
relieve them, by reftoring their limbs. In fome their 
pains went of by forming phlegmons and eryfipelas’s 
upon the extremities ; fome of which feized the 
arm and fore- arm, and were conhderable enough to 
bring on the death of the patients ; others were at- 
tended with large gangrenous efchars, which likewife 
frequently proved fatal. 
Of all the remedies, that did fervice in thefe dif- 
orders, deccxflions of the bark, and the fudorific 
woods, as likewife that of fcorfonera, were moft 
efFe<ftual. But if a plentiful miliary eruption came 
on, notwithftanding the relief it feemed at firft to 
procure, the event feldom turned out well. 
The years i/qf, 46, and 47, proved tolerably 
healthy: fome diforders of the throat, becoming 
more common about the end of the laft of thefe three 
years, were the fore-runners of the gangrenous fore 
throats of 1748, of which I have already made men- 
tion. In thefe cruel diftempers the throat was in 
the fame ftate with that of the larger inteftines in 
1743^ 
Great 
