[…] a Family was infected there, in so terrible a Manner that every one of the House died; the last Person lay dead on the Floor, and as it is supposed, had laid her self all along to die just before the Fire; the Fire, it seems had fallen from its Place, being of Wood, and had taken hold of the Boards and the Joists they lay on, and burnt as far as just to the Body, but had not taken hold of the dead Body […]

a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.

Note that a FP diagnosis (with null hypothesis of being healthy) may cause a prescription of an unnecessary treatment.

And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.