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Having drank much, and being heated 
by the wine, he was feized with vomiting ; 
when this went off, he rejoined his com¬ 
pany, and refumed his glafs. Having 
drank fo much wine as to exhilarate 
him, he returned home, went to bed, 
fell afleep immediately, fweat in his lleep, 
and in the morning found himfelf very 
well, having neither bubo nor any other 
iymptom of the plague. (Loco Citato. 
Hilt. 55.) 
In the cafes juft mentioned, was the 
miafmata deftroyed ? I do not fuppofe it— 
a miafmata is not eafily deftroyed. Was 
it then difcharged out of the body ? This 
is not more likely than the former. What 
idea are we then to form of this affair? 
The condition or difeafed ftate of the 
nervous fyftem is changed, and the mi- 
afma can no longer adt upon it. This idea 
is not folitary, but fupported and con¬ 
firmed by a variety of fadts and obferva- 
T 4 tions, 
