2 o 6 Dr.  white’s  Experiments 
unhappy  people  were  feized  with  violent  difficulty  of 
breathing,  feveral  were  delirious,  the  place  was  filled 
with  incoherent  ravings,  exclamations,  and  cries  of  dif- 
trefs:  the  cry  of  water,  water , was  predominant;  it  was 
handed  to  them  by  the  centinels,  but  had  no  effedl  in 
eafing  their  thirft.  Before  eleven  o’clock  many  were  fuf- 
focated,  or  died  violently  delirious.  By  twelve  o’clock 
all  that  furvived,  except  a few  at  the  grate,  were  to  the 
higheft  degree  phrenetic  and  outrageous;  they  now 
found  no  relief  from  water,  but  air  could  not  be  pro- 
cured. Soon  after,  thofe  at  the  grate  grew  fo  infenfible, 
that  we  have  no  account  of  what  happened  till  they 
were  releafed  from  their  confinement  at  fix  o’clock  next 
morning.  Such  was  the  effefrs  of  animal  effluvia  in  a 
clofe  and  unventilated  place  in  the  fpace  of  eleven  hours, 
that,  out  of  one  hundred  and  forty-fix  fouls,  no  more 
than  twenty-three  came  out  alive,  and  thofe  in  a high,, 
putrid  fever,  of  which,  however,  by  freffl  air,  8cc.  they 
gradually  recovered. 
In  all  confined  places,  in  proportion  to  their  airynefs, 
we  find  more  or  lefs  of  this.  In  hofpitals,  though  the  wards 
may  give  no  marks  of  it  by  any  apparent  dirtynefs  or 
difagreeable  fmell,  we  may  obferve  its  effects ; difeafes 
which  ufually  admit  in  private  practice  of  an  eafy  cure, 
are  often  very  tedious,  and  apt  to  affume  anomalous 
fymptoms. 
