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with their feet. And in the following year, 
feveral, even during the height of the dif- 
order, preferved their ftrength in fuch a 
degree as to attempt to attack thofe who 
approached them. 
Some inhabitants of Nimega attacked 
with the plague, immediately loft their 
ftrength, and became incapable of moving, 
whilft others retained their powers to the 
very moment of diftolution. (Diemer- 
broeck de Perte, 1 . i, cap. 3.) 
In this terrible difeafe, the infedted fre¬ 
quently fall vidlims to its violence in the 
midft of their ufual occupations, and die 
in the ftreets, churches, &c. 
In the plague which committed fuch 
horrible ravages at Bruflels in the year 
1 502, people died whilft eating and drink¬ 
ing as fuddenly as if they had been ftruck 
with lightning. During the plague at 
Smyrna, I have feen unfortunate wretches 
walking in the ftreets without being con- 
fcious 
