Page:Loimologia 1721.djvu/152

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1 g 1 Of the tnanifeft Signs of Death imprinted in many Places *, and in that following Night ihe died, before Ihe her felf, or any Perfon about her, could difcern her otherwife out of Order. Some time after I vifited a Widow of Sixty Years of Age, whom I met with at Dinner, where ihe had eat heartily of Mutton, and filled befides her Stomach with Broth *, after I had enquired into fe- veral Particulars relating to her Health, ihe affirmed her felf to have never been better in her Life, but upon feeling her Pulfe, I perceived it to intermit, and upon examining her Breaft, I found an Abundance of "TohriSj which proved too true a Prognoftick, that even after ib good a Dinner ihe would by the Evening be in another World. AS to the Eruption of thefe fatal Characters, I judged them to be rather the Effects 'of the peftilential corrofive Salt, than of any Putrefaction of the Humours ^ for this Poifon wanting room for Exhala- tion through the Pores of the Skin, col* lected in Quantities upon the Surface, and for want of Spirits to itrive therewith imprinted thefe Marks thereupon. FUR-