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 [ ] SECTION VI. The Prognojlick Signs of the late Pejl Hence* AS that Peftilence which of late made fo great Havock amongft Mankind, was fo full of Shifting^ and Chancres m its Attacks and Progrefs, that very little Certainty could be had of its Event:, it highly concerns the Credit and Honour of the Faculty, not too haftily in fuch Cafes to prognose ate either Recovery or Death : In Order therefore to remove, as much as poillble, iiich Difficulties for the future, it is with Cheerfulnefs that I can leave with Pofterity thofe Obfervations which I have been able to make ill my daily Atten- dance upon the Infe&ed, to the utmoft Ha- zard of my Life, through the Courfe of this late Sicknefs. THE prognofHck Signs then regard either the Peftilence it felf, as to its Origin, Heighth^ and Declenfion, or the Recovery or Death of the Patient, iSOM