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Excerpt from An Inaugural Dissertation, in Which, by an Induction of Facts From Dysentery, the Mitchillian Doctrine of Pestilential Fluids Is Illustrated: Submitted to the Public Examination of the Faculty of Physic, Under the Authority of the Trustees of Columbia College, in the State of New-York
The derivation Of the word pestis, from the Hebrew tows, may be a just one, as the word is Used for undressing, Lev. Vi. 4. Cant. V. 3. With which the Hebrews always connect the idea of weakening. From Judges xi. 33. It appears, like wise, that that verb has the signification of rushing upon somebody in order to destroy him. In the most places it occurs for plundering; as 2 Sam. Xxiii. Io. Nahum iii. 16} it is applied to the mischiefs of the canker-worm.
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