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 of the late <Peftilence. 107 of the Infecrion, after his Mother and the reft of the Family had been vifited by it, when all on a fudden he was feized with fuch a Palpitation at Heart, that I and feveral others could hear it at fome confiderable Diftance, and it continued fo to do till he died, which was foon after } many Medicines being given without any manner of Succeis : But in fo extraordinary a Cafe as this, I am apt to conjecture it rather owing to a Pefti- iential Carbuncle feizing the Heart it felf^ than from the Vellication and Stimulus only of pungent Particles palling through it. BUT to go on in the Enumeration of Symptoms, Sweat deferves mention, becaufe fometimes it breaks out in fuch Profufion, as if the whole Conftitution was diffolved, and with a vaft Lofs of Spirits and Strength^ to the imminent Danger of the Patient, by fuch a Diffipation of Spirits, fuch a Colli- quation of the Balfam of Life, and an Ex- tinction of the natural Heat. And indeed I know nothing that more powerfully atte- nuates the Humours, and more fuddenly puts all the animal Juices into Fufion, fo as to run them through the Pores of the Skin, as the peftilential nitro-aereal Poifon ^ and