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XXVIII. Two Medical Obfervations by Dr. 
JofephBenevuti, Phyjician at Lucca ; com- 
municated to the late Prefdent of the Royal 
Society , by Dr. Ch. Allioni of Turin, 
F. R. S. and t ran fated front the Latin by 
Daniel Peter Layard, M. D. Phyfician to 
her Royal Highnefs the Prmcefs Dowager 
of Wales, Member of the Royal College of 
Phyficians in London, and of the Royal 
Societies of London and Gottingen.. 
I . Of a fick Man furprizingly. recovered from a Fever . 
Read June 9, MAN forty years of age, named 
/~\ Angelus Amadei, of a plethoric 
conftitution, and of a low fize, having a malignant 
fever, began on the ninth day to grow delirious, 
and continued fo during the tenth night; when, feveral 
bad fymptoms appearing, it was thought he mud die 
foon. Early on the eleventh day in the morning, he 
bid the by-ftanders quit his room, and expreffed a 
defire of going to deep ; his friends were unwilling 
to withdraw, unlefs they firft dripped him of his 
fhirt, and dried him of the fweat he was in. But. 
the patient refufing, and at laft growing angry, they 
were obliged to yield to his will. About an hour 
after, a woman went into the bed- room, and not 
finding 
