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 88 Of the manifeft Signs Judgment} as the Populace are apt enough to frame ftrange Conceits out of their own Heads, and what hath' long obtained amongft them is very difficult to erace. WHEN therefore fuch a kind of Peo- ple hath received the Notion, as was common in the late Sicknefs, concerning the foremen- tioned Manner of Infe&ion, it is no great Wonder that others like wife in general go in- to the Error, and take it for granted that this unmerciful Deftroyer makes its Seizure In this violent Way, and therefrom wait for it as for a fudden Stroke. ALTHOUGH I am not infenfible, that fome may have thus perceived its fir ft Im- preffion, upon taking in ungrateful and filthy Smells 5 for the peftilential Seminium^ (as before obferved) when it incorporates with other Bodies that are grofs, fat, and vifcid, may ftrike the Organs of Senfation very mani- feftly at its fir ft Entrance. AFTER the peftilential Miafmata have thus feized a Perfon, and the Spirits are over- come, the whole Mais of Blood, and other a- nhnal Juices, partake of the Diforder •, from whence proceed Struggles not to be born, and a