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Rosa Anglica (Author: [unknown])
section 11
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Item if the breathing be good, and the fever lightening, it is a good sign, but should the fever and thirst be acute, with constriction of the chest, it is a sign of death. Item if weakness of the heart supervene, it is a sign of death, for it
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shows that the matter has gone to the heart. Item if the matter go to the lungs, it is an indication that death or phthisis is approaching; and if it go to the eyes, it takes away the sight, or leaves a web on them; and if they (the patients) be cured badly, it leaves ugly pits on the body.