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and free-men. The peftilential fever de- 
fcribed by John Morelli, exerted its vio¬ 
lence again!! the nobles and upper claffes 
of citizens, whilft the peafants and lower 
order of thofe who lived in towns, efcaped. 
The miliary fever, which reigned in 
Italy in the year 1528, only feized very 
few old people, but a very confiderable 
number of children and young people of 
roburt: temperament, fell vidiims to its 
power; (Fracaftor.) 
In the Roman Hiftory by Dionyfius Ha- 
ficarnaflus (lib. 4.), we find a defcription 
of a plague which confined itfelf to un¬ 
married women. In the year 1690, an 
epidemic tertian fever attacked the inhabi¬ 
tants of the country round Modena, in 
1691 invaded thofe of the town, and in 
a third conftitution, it was entirely con¬ 
fined to the citizens, and not one of the 
Jews in the city experienced any attack of 
it. (Ramazzini, Conft. Epid. Mut.) 
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