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 of the late Teflilence. §f without any Relu&ance, fall into profound,, and often deacily Sleeps. BUT by what Means this Venom does exert its narcotick Qualities, is not with me fo ready to be accounted for ; that is to fay* whether it be from its original Seminlum ? Or from its Affinity and Complication with the Scurvy ? Or from its predominant Malignity and Antipathy ? Or from an ObftrucHon of Circulation, or Coagulation, or Extravafation of Blood ? Or laftly, from fome particular Impreilion made upon the Origin of the ISIerves? For this is a Difficulty referved for another Hippocrates. In the mean while it is by all confeiTed, that by fuch Stupe fa-* £Hon or Sleeping, the peftilential Venom becomes not only more deeply rooted, but alio more cruelly affects the nervous Syfteiri, and greatly weakens it. THE firft and moil 1 confiderable Symp„ torn of the fecond Clafs, was a Fever, which (as was before faid) was a conftant Atten-* dant upon the laft Peflilence 5 although in- deed the Infection ieemed to kill fome before the Blood and other Juices could rife into Fermentation; wherefore it may be taken for granted, that moft Perfons were accom- H pa»ied