THE smaller the Carbuncles are in Compass, and their Situation remote from the Viscera, greater Vessels, Tendons, and Nerves, and the fewer they are in Number, by so much it is the better; and, on the contrary, when they spread like a Gangrene, and are near the principal Parts, as the Breast or Belly, and also are numerous, or livid, the
Fate of the Patient may be pronounced desperate.
THE pestilential Tokens, especially when they are deep, are the sure and speedy Messengers of Death.
FOR a general Mortification commonly follows these particular ones: although there is sometimes (as before observed) some Time given between one and the other, as for two or three Days.
A Complication of bad Symptoms, together, precipitates the Patient into another World.
NAY, sometimes when there are many Symptoms of Recovery, the obstinate Continuance of one bad is enough to determine the Patient’s Fate.
FROM the inconstant Appearance of the Urine, there can be no certain Judgment made.
THE Urine indeed of these Patients is generally not to be distinguished from that of healthful Persons, although sometimes its Stench is not to be endured; this a
certain Physician found to his Cost, who taking the Urinal too near, was infected by the Scent, fell ill, and in three Days died.
THE Pulse, which in all other Diseases is almost a certain Index, in this Sickness could not be at all trusted to.