Being acquainted with two Ladies of very distant Ages, but very near of Kin, who were both of them troubled with Distempers, that made me guess their Eyes might somtimes be oddly Affected, I Enquired of them, whether they were not troubled with sudden Apparitions of Flame or Fire? to which one of them answer’d me, that oftentimes there would appear to her Multitudes, as she fancied, of Sparks of Fire, that were very unwelcome to her. And the other Lady, that was subject to Convulsive, but not Epileptick, Fits, told me, she divers times saw, as she fancied, such Flashes of Fire as I had mentioned, pass before her Eyes, which at first did not a little Frighten her.
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