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 of the late <Pe ft Hence. 89 a Train of Symptoms, of which quaking or ihuddering is the chief, all of a fudden, with- out any manifeft Caufe. THIS Symptome owes its Origin to the Conflict of Nature with the infufed Malignity, whofe Efforts of Refiftance excite a Senfe of Cold from the peflilential Seminium after the fame Manner as Nitre put upon the Tongue excites the fame Senfation ; it is al- io to be fufpe&ed that this Rigor may be ow- ing to a Quality in the poifonous Effluvia of extinguishing the native Heat : And the Spaf- modick Affections of the Nerves proceed from fait, fharp, malignant, and heterogeneous Par- ticles rufhing into the fenfible Fibres, and vellicating them into involuntary Motions and Twjtchings. THE greateil Part indeed of the Infe&ed perceived this Horror, but fome of them more vehemently than others •, -but of the immediate 1m predion upon the Spirit there is no Room to doubt, nor of a confequent De- generation of the whole Mafs of Blood ^ al- though I am fenfible that the Subtilty of the peflilential Taint took Place fooner or later, according to the different Degrees of Strength and Texture in the Body to refill it, IT