Page:Loimologia 1721.djvu/116

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p6 Of the manifeft Signs With the various Difpofitions of the Fluids, This vertiginous Difpofition alfo> in my Opi- nion, might fometimes arife from the inordi- nate and irregular Motions of the Spirits. A great many likewife much complained of a Head-ach, fo vehement, as if the Parts would have flown afunder; a Complaint the moil intolerable of all, becaufe it conti- nued without any Remiffion, or Intervals } the Enemy never retreating of it felf, and on* ly to be vanquifhed by the Efforts of the Conftitution, and appolite Medicines-. In- deed nothing was more plain, than that the Meninges were ftimula ted by the faline Spi- cule of the Contagion; and from the In- flammation of the Brain, and its Sphacela- tion in thofe who died, there is a ftrong Sufpicion that this cruel, fhooting Pain, con- tinued to the laft. I N this CJafs of Symptoms, Stupefacti- on is alfo to be ranked •, becaufe from the Moment of Seizure many were taken with a Coma, and flept as if they were dozed with an Opiate *, many in the middle of their Employ, with their Friends in Con- verfation, or other Engagements, (as was before taken notice of) would fuddenly, with-