1 1 Of the manlfefl Signs putrefaction, according to the Opinion of the Ancients. > A N D as for my own Part, I can affirm, that I never could in any one fingle Inftance amongft the infected, find the leaft Impreffi- pus of Corruption in the Blood 5 and this even thofe Empiricks, though unwillingly, eonfefs, who, to the vail Detriment of the Sick, let them Blood upon fuch a Notion • none of them having been ever able to difco" ver any Signs of Corruption in their Blood, which,as confcious of it felf, blufhed for their fatal Miftake,and in this Diitemper commonly appeared more florid than at other Times. T H 4 T the Times of the Paroxyfms ihould be uncertain, I take owing to the Ina- bility of the ConfKtution to ftruggle with the peflilential Venom - for as every Fever is ac- counted regular, where all its Changes are uni- form and diflincr, by Reafon of the managable and ductile Difpofition of the morbifick Mat- ter ; fb, on the contrary,] where the pefH- iential MUfmata uncertainly exert themfelves, and excite new Commotions, either by the Obftinacy or Afperity of their Parts not yielding to Comminution,there a Fever returns with inconitant and unexpected Exacerba- tion^ :
