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and fecond degree, ftill felt fome remains of the 
fymptoms of the difeafe. Such patients, as had any 
critical abfceffes, were faved by this tribute only ; 
but others, who efcaped the mortality of this dan- 
gerous poifon, carried about with them for feveral 
months, and ftill feel, its terrible effects : for to the 
ui'ual weaknefs of convalefcents were joined palpita- 
tions of the heart ; a little of the painful laffitude in 
the joints, which was a iign of the firft attack of the 
difeafe j a flight pain in the head, but almofl; con- 
flan t ; an uncertain pulfe; and, upon the leflening 
or ceflation of thefe complaints, they were replaced 
by wandering pains in the hypochondrias, fwimmings 
in the head, melancholy, and a remarkable difpofl- 
tion to fear, being the remains of what conffituted 
one of the charaderiflics of the difeafe. 
XVI. An Account of the Death of Mr, 
George William Richman, Profejfor of 
experimental Philofophy^ a Member of the 
Imperial Academy of Sciences at Peterf- 
burg. Tranfated from the High-Dutch. 
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Read March 13, T^yobody Can be ignorant, who has 
perufed the works of the Aca- 
demy at Peterfburgh, or even only the public papers, 
with what application the late Profeflbr Richman had 
ftudied, among other branches of philofophy, that of 
the eledricity of bodies in general, and that of thun- 
der- 
