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 of the late Teftilence. 127 by the Provocation of an Erne tick given her, after which were ufed the moft Cordial Re- medies, and the moil warm Alexiphaimicks, early in the Morning, a frefli Carbuncle came in the Place of the old one j me was delirious all that Day, and in the Evening fhe expired- After the Bearers came that Night to bury her, and talked of fetching away the old Wo- man next, as a Perfon dead, the poor Wretch, as awakened from Sleep, cried out, ihe was not dead } but ihe difappointed not their A- greement, and died time enough to be carried away the fame Night to the burying Place. I might eafiiy imploy a Volume in a Reci- tal of all the particular Circumftances of thefe Carbuncles - 7 but however, before I diimifs this Subject, I cannot omit that the pefKlential Venom was in a very great Manner commu- nicable from one Carbuncle to another .*, or to fpeak perhaps more properly, the fa line Vi- rulence of a Carbuncle would generate another wherefoever. it lodged. THE Number of Carbuncles was .undeter- minate, fometimes two, three, four, or more, would come out at once, the peftilential Ve- nom being diifufed to many Parts at the fame Time • but the reft we fhall leave to that Section