84. The I t a T U R A L j H'l S T O R*Yk f
gijjgle of words, and. argue againft confirmed! ;Principtes,5 per-;
haps rather through the Protection of a Patron, than, an awful rej
gard to Philofophyy and. the truth-of thingsr^ be affured they
mount like Icartis on Artificial Wings,- and may expeól an equal
ruin.'
Thé truth of our Allegation may farther appear from an Experiment
firftfhown to me by my Learned and Worthy Friend
Dr. Edw: Baynard of the Collegeof PhyficianspTont/on. I Henr-
der’d the Urine of RheumatickPerfons to be diftill’d by Mr. George
Molt Chimift; after diftillation fcarce one grain of Salt was found
remaining^ywhich ihe had never obferved in the diftillation. of aé
ny Urine before, which doubtlefs muft proceed from this caufe,
that the Saline Particles lodged in the Mafsvof Blood, were fo
entangl’d in a Vifcous LywjpJw, that the Glandules of the -Reins^
and Urinary paflages were Orifices too fmall to feparaterthem;
The fame reafon may hold in thofe labouring under the’Drbpfy,
for their Emiffion of fo fmall a quantity of Urine.
Thefe things premifedprodeed we next to give an account
of the Peftilential Fever raging in -thefe Counties^ the :£tio'
logy of which may be deduced from what proceeds: Sometimes
Ife'tezed the Patient with an intermittent fit or Two, and then
ihftantly turn’d continued? i, and in this GMs Malignantintermittent
Fevers may be ranked ; 1 fometimes Violent Pleuritick,
and Rheumatick pains attend them, the extrefnep»arts^
vated to an-uncommon bulk y and many times the Groin fwéll’d ;
and which was worthy Our Obfervation thefe Symptoms-, receding
the Patients grew Delirious, or Comatofe, fometimes their Pulfe
feetri’d: regular, but oftner weak, quick, unequal, and intermitting,
with Vibrations, and twitching of thé Tendons, fome-
time they were oppreft; with Cold clammy Sweats, Con vul five
Motions and an Univerfal trembling , yet many thus afflicted
recover’d, and many funck away in an irrecoverable Coma, others
were'all diftain’d with fpots of different Colours, as Red , .Yellow,
Purple^and’fometimes with Purple Tokens about the Neck,
that many. times the Patients feem as though they had been
ftrangl’d. Ffaw Carbuncles upon the fpine with all the Ambient
flelh
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iefh Black striff'SphacHatdèi, - but indeed thefe Were only in one
Perfon. One there Was that wasTaralitfcM but he recover’d • ma-
hy complain’d of infuffêrable Head-Aches, aè if the Very Crani-
i/F-had Béèh-öpeMdy t fe y Wit e very reftlefs,' arid had repeated
Deliriums, and fometimes it fell out, that even to their Dying
hour, many were neither fick in appearance, nor was the Pulfe
irregular,rthëk Urine well digefted, and were fenfible all along;
many were feized with Violent Hamiorrhagies y at the Noftrils,
and fometimes the. Dterus ; others complain’d of Naufeoufnefs,
and continual Sicknefs, and Vomiting,, the Tongue was fpread
over with a Yellow Pellicle, with fometimes Black or White
Fiflures, the Urine- often L&ivial, full of Red^ White, Black,
aftdTiüsfeyr Sééiments, many of tbef y DyadtConvulfive,;eor Go-;
matofé, fometimes the Urine was pellucid, and for .many Days
deposited a Bricky Sediment,i yet -havinglobferved f erniffipns in
many of thefe by the ufe of - the ‘êorfear défirabfeTwceefe at-
’ tended’/
the Imminent D r takes nbtiemof^fo this,Bricky;
Sediment,-! father 'atÉfibhièpit -m a pecuMar Bfflous'*Scorbritfeki
Temper nf>4&"Bk)0 d, tMariitHeTèbrile ferment as bfe wbu’dhavsi
iL The Ufine fometimes had 00 Goafiffeneé withlitj(>lwas gfeeft
fifth and bore an Oleaginousfcum over it,, but the Patients .vpidr .
j fpg - fich W&efffffli6feed«with wp*y fevere - SymptbriisjhmanyiiwefSi
opprej^W^h^uelSiarrh^aifid^Gripes, and pttes/WitffC^i^j'
nëfiy- their Egefïa. downwards were‘of a BIackifh’greeri, become-
fo dööbtlefs by 'Very Acrid- humours commixtwith;Bile ; by tfei
l^ktri&Hiffioèrtfèès fuch fort of Excrements were^iled
d-taièpBajfïa, andtthbfe Perfons very Mdritah Symptoms attended ;
that -Expreffioii of Galerij occurs with this,
trfj. 0 sre»'* t\\é.t i%\p\The: Soweb
hound1 y- - and -- the E xcrem ents black ~ and ( fm a l l , dike - thafM ? o f
Oftiitiouts. ■ The Blbod upon theopeningtbfiaf .VeiniwaF-
gëriéfaïly fotnetinaeswer^ with a fisparation of
little or no Serum,; for that was too,much entangl’d withf the
grumous part of the Blood by. Saline Particles to difengage from
it 3 in fome the Spittle was thick, and plentiful, fometimes Yel-
Y low