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Difference in varibus Subjects, yet I never once favv 
a well-digcfted or conceded Phlegm, or Mucus, on 
the contrary, the greateft Part was of a Jelly-like 
Nature, gl ary, and fomewhat tranfparent, mixt with 
a white opaque thready Matter, fometimes more, 
fonje times lcls, refcmbling a rotten membranous 
Body or Slough. 
Such a Slough I have feen generated on the Skin 
of one of thefc Patients in the Neck and Arm, 
where Bliftcrs had been before applied. The Blifters 
had been dreffed with Colewort-leaves, and ran but 
little ; but, contiguous to them, fmall red Puftules, 
not exceeding fiery, arofe, which, fweating plentifully 
in a few Hours, became quite white : Thefc, hourly 
enlarging their Safes, united, and covered a large 
Surface, frefh Puftules ariftng in the adjacent Parts. 
This white Surface had the Afped of an overfoaked 
Membrane, which, being overfoaked, was become 
absolutely rotten. The Part bliftered, if not quite, 
was in Effed dry, and the Flux from the Slough was 
incredibly great. If I miftake not, Cloths ten times 
double, the ^Child’s Shift, a double Bed-gown, were 
wet quite through, and a large Spot was feen in the 
Bed of Tome Hands Breadth ; and this in a very few 
Hours. I Scratched the Slough with my Nail i it 
Separated with Eafe, and without being felt by the 
Child. What my Nail took off afforded the fame 
Appearance with the Matter of the Spittle before- 
mention’d. Hence, I thought, I law Sufficient Rea- 
fon to convince me that the Diforder in the Larynx 
and A [per a Artena was Similar to this, generated in 
the fame manner, and arifing from the fame inter- 
nal Caufe: And liippofing this Conjedure true, the 
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