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which is abfolutely falfe. The Greek Padre, who 
took care of the Greek- hofpital at Smyrna for fifty 
years, affined me, that he had had the plague twelve 
different times in that interval; and it is very certain, 
that he died of it in 1736. Monfieur Broffard had it 
in the year 1745, when he returned from France; 
and it is very well known, that he and all his family 
died of it in April 1762. The Abbe, who takes care 
of the Frank- hofpital at Pera, fworetometheother day, 
that he has had it already, here and at Smyrna, four 
different times. But, what is flill more extraordinary, 
is, that a young woman, who had it in September 
lad:, with it’s mod: pathognomonic fymptoms, as bu- 
boes and carbuncles, after a fever, had it again on 
the 11th of April, and died of it fome days ago, 
while there is not the lead: furmife of any accident in 
or about Condantinople dnce December, this only 
one excepted : but there died four perfons in the fame 
little houfe in September ; and as the houfe was never 
well cleaned, and this young woman always lived 
in it, fhe was at lad: attacked a fecond time, and 
died. 
The only antecedents, that I could obferve to this 
malady, was a great murrain among the black cattle 
in May 1745, and in the beginning of June, the fame 
year, fwarms of butterdies dew about, and there 
were great numbers of caterpillars creeping every 
where, and afterwards a violent plague : and, after 
obferving the fame anno 1752 and 1758, you may 
recoiled:, that I foretold to you, Sir, that we fhould have 
a hot plague in thofe years ; which accordingly hap- 
pened, efpecially in the months of Augufl and Sep- 
tember 17 ;8, when many of Marfellini’s family, 
Spathari, 
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