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 they languish'd under the Burthen, and were no longer, by any Means, capable of Help.

Again; such Persons who liv'd to Excess in their Eating and Drinking, and were seized with this Pestilential Distemper, were generally taken at first with great Vomitings and Loosenesses; which they were wont rather to impute to their inordinate Livings than to the Power of the Plague then raging; and so sought out for no other Remedies, than such as were thought proper for those Diseases, and not the Plague, of which they died. Whereas, on the contrary, those that liv'd temperate, and were observing of themselves, so as to use immediately the proper Means, upon the first Sense of their being assaulted by that Venom, and follow'd the Directions before given, very rarely miscarry'd. Nay, even such whole Families that were infected, have all escap'd, by duly observing the Orders above prescrib'd.

And, lastly, to add to this Scene of Misery, it has been observ'd, That when Spots have appear'd, of what Kind soever they were, the Nurses and Tenders of the Sick, as soon as they perceiv'd them, were struck with such a terrible Amazement and Apprehension, insomuch, that thereby giving over their Patients for dead, they have left off Rh