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 74 Of the primary Seat UPON the flrong, prefumptive Proofs therefore that the peftilemtial Poifon chiefly relides in the Spirits, we cannot but much admire at the Weaknefs of thole, who ex- peel to detect its Nature and Caufe from what they can find on the DifTe&ion of morbid Bodies, and fuch like Circumftanees : For a very noted Perfon, and one of ex- quifite Skill in Anatomy, although he him- felf at laft fell in the general Calamity, affirmed, that the Seat of the laft Peftilence was in the extream Angles of the Vlcxm Choroldes, towards the Cerebellum, becaufe he had found a fmall Veiicle there - 7 others have obferved the Lungs to have been marked with the Tokens of Infection ^ o- thers report the Heart to have been tume- fied, and burnt as it were to a Coal ^ whereas it is plain, that thefe Parts are only fo many Fields of Battle, where the Spirits and the Infeclion contend it with each other; Nor will any one, who rightly confiders thefe Things, wonder, that fuch Marks of Devaftation ihould every where be left by fo cruel an Enemy. THEREFORE, although it mould be granted that the moft obvious and open Tokens