of a tPeftilence, &c. 83 Origins, as will hereafter more fully appear in that Part about their Cure. THE PehHlence like wife iliews its Affini- ty with the Scurvy, by leaving behind it a fcorbutick Habit, even where a Perfon was not given to it in the leafl before ; and it is not indeed at all ftrange, that after fach Dis- orders, and Corruption of the animal Juices, and luch an Exhalation or Suffocation of fub- tile and ipirituous Particles, an Habit fhould be confirmed, that can be removed but by the fiioft generous Remedies, and the moft pow- erful Aatifcorbutich. I T remains now briefly to enquire, whe- ther a Peftiience coming upon another Dif- eafe, in any Inftances proves of Service^ and this I mall difpatch in two HifTories of Cafes, one in a Confumption, and the other in the Ki?i£s-EviL A Girl of fifteen Years of Age was fo ema- ciated, that fhe had left little befldes Skin and Bones, and taking no Nourimment for 14 Days together, fhe was given over as gone - but being called to the fame Houfe to fee her Mother, and two others who had the Infeciion, and recovered, the fame Diflemper G 2 feiz-
