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ing, followed with fluxes, which it was found ne- 
celTary to moderate. I' fucceeded with one or two 
bleedings, after which I gave the decodum album *. 
Some of thefe difeafes had the appearance, at firflr, 
of a flight peripneumony, or cold, with perpetual 
faint fweats : then followed a drowfinefs and flupor, 
a rambling for fome moments at night, the belly 
puffed up, and uneafy, little or no urine, .then a 
miliary eruption and delirium j and the patient was 
carried off in a few days. 
The flomach in thefe fubjedls was inflamed, as 
alfo the fmall guts, by patches. In fome there were 
ulcers, which almofl: penetrated the fubftance of the 
inteftines. 
Their lungs were full of blood, and in the back 
part, adhering to the pleura. 
Thofe, who had a flight loofenefs only in the 
morning, which did not check the fweats, recover’d. 
Some of the malignant fevers, which we had at* 
the Hotel Dieu in lyfo, were reported to be caufed 
by infection conveyed in bales of horfe-hair, to which 
was left fome of the animals flefh, that was become 
putrified : . and yet thefe fevers did not differ from 
others which we have already defcribed. 
Martha Renon, a girl of about twenty years of 
age, who died of this fever, had the mefentery filled 
with obftruded glands, and the inteftines mortified 
in different places. 
* Crum of bread, two ounces ; hartfhorn-fhavings, half an 
ounce; root of the greater comfrey, cut in dices, one ounce; to 
be boiled in a quart of water for a quarter of an hour ; ftrain, and 
add an ounce of diacodiupn. 
Francis 
