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feveral days of intolerable Pain were over, when by an ealy ordi- 
OfaColick. nary Glifter he was relieved, and efcaped that time. Drinking very 
hard, fome rime after, he fell into the Hemorrhoids with intolerable 
pain, and at the fame time had a Flux and Fever, che Flux being a Cri- 
fis of the latter. He fent for a Chirurgeon, who gave him ac night, 
as I {uppofe, a Bolus of fome Opiat Medicines, which fop'd the 
Loofenels, but increas'd the Fever co that extremity, that he wasi~ 
great danger. 1, on all thefe accounts, order’d him to be Bi: . 
to ten Ounces, gave him cooling Juleps, and directed the Anus « 
Hemorrhoids to be eafily anointed with Ung. Comitiff. and Popul. is 
fome time he recover'd by degrees his former ftate of '-alth, buc 
was very often fubjeé&t to violent Colicks, which I judge snighe 
be occafion’d by fome part of the Guts adhering to the Cicatrix of 
the great Wound in his Hypochondre, and by that means occafioning 
ome {mall ftop or obftructions to the paflage of the Excrements in 
that place, as it happens, for another Reafon, to thofe troubl’d with 
Ruptures ; but in fome time ( which was requifite for the Guts to 
do their Office, the Excrements to be moiftned, and pafs chis ftop ) 
it ufually went off. He was very much troubl’d with the Hemor- 
rboids, and inflam’d {well’d Eyes, the firft I curd with Bleeding, and 
the Ointments before mention’d, the latter with Bleeding, Purging and 
Bliftering, according co the greatnefs or ftubbornefs of the Difeafe, 
ee A Seaman, aged about Forty, hada quick Feverifh Pulfe, efpe- 
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famption ally cowards the Evening ; a very troublelome Cough, which had 
or Heétic, been his Companion for fome Months. | order’d him to take fome 
PeQtoral Medicines, and at night an Anodyne Draught, by which 
he found fomeeafe. I chang’d, after a while, his Medicines, and 
gave him Locatelli’s Balfam ; but he grew weary, and went to change 
the Air. Hecame, in about nine Months after, tome, very much 
emaciated, with his former complaints,: only in every réf{pect worfe, 
with a great Loofenefs, for which I gave him every Evening about 
9j. of Ther. Ven. with gr. j. Laud. Lond. which ftop’d his Loofenels 
and other Symptoms. 1 know nor what became of him afterwards, 
he not coming near me, but by the common courfe of fuch Di- 
ftempers, ‘tis likely he died foon after. 
One Saturday evening, when we were in hot Weather, aHog be- 
ing kill’d,and the Blood fav'd(to make Puddings)till Monday morning, 
they proy'd yery hurtful, for alchough fome, who had eat of them, 
complain’d nor, yet feveral others were taken violently ill ; fome 
Vomiting with great pain, and others Vomiting and going to Stool 
with great Anxieties. Being call’d, and asking if they had eaten or 
drunk any thing co occafion fuch great diforders, I concluded the 
Puddings, 
