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and putrefaction in the blood and other fluids, as at 
laft flops their circulation, and the patients die. 
This was the cafe of the Greek, who fpoke with your 
mafter of horfe, Knightkin, at the window, anno 
1752, and went and died in an hour afterwards in 
the vineyards of Buiuk dere ; and it was faid he died 
fuddenly, tho’ it was very well known to many, that 
he had the plague upon him for many days before this 
accident happened. 
Mrs. Chapouis found herfelf indifpofed for many 
days, anno 1758, and complained pretty much, be- 
fore fhe was fufpeCted to have the plauge. Captain 
Hills’ failor was infedted in Candia 1736 ; was a 
fortnight in his paflage to Smyrna, as the captain 
fwore to me ; yet he was five days in the hofpital 
there before he died. Mr. Life’s gardiner was in- 
difpofed twelve days before he took to his bed, and 
he lay in bed eight days before he died, in 
July 1745. 
It is true, that Thucydides, in his account of the 
plague at Athens, relates, that fome were faid to die 
fuddenly of it ; which .may have led others into the 
fame way of thinking: but Thucydides (with all due 
regard to him) mufl be allowed to have known very 
little of the animal ceconomy, for he was no phy- 
fician, tho’ a very famous hiftorian ; and he owns 
moreover, that, when the plague firft attacked the 
Pireeum, they were fo much flrangers to it at Athens, 
that they imagined the Lacedemonians, who then 
befieged them, had poifoned their wells, and that 
fuch was the caufe of their death. Befides, he pre- 
tends to affirm, from the little experience he had of: 
the plague, that the fame perfon cannot have it twice, 
which 
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