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One Prince, a lufty Negro, had been ill of the Yaws (of which Ofa Black 
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I fall have occafion to fay more hereafter) and flux’d HORHGIE One is mie 
of the Chirurgeons Hot-Houfes at Town, where being kept ex- cate, run 
tremely hot, and abridg’d of Victuals, he, either being mad, or ex- out of tho 
tremely uneafie, broke open the Door, and ran home ina very great ei 
Breeze of Wind, Upon this his Spittle thickn’d, and his {pitting heighth of 
ftop'd, ic running by Stool, and griping him very much. Ma- Sharan 
jor Bragg fent for meto him, I order'd a little place in acornerof 
the Houle to be made moderately warm for him, and gave him as 
much Watergruel as he could eat or drink, one Scruple of Merc. 
Dulc. in Conlerve of Rofes feveral times, and to ftop the Loofe- 
nefs, fome drops of Laxdan. Lig. were putto it. By thefe means his 
Salivation rofe again, and all the Symptoms ceas’d, only on the up- 
per part of his Foot was one Sore, not yet dry'd, for which to- 
wards the Jatcer end of his Spitting, I gave him 7 gr. of Tur- 
bith. Min. in a Bolus of Confery. Rof. which working well up- 
wards and downwards, it dry’d. Hecontinued well withour Re: 
lapfe. 
Mrs. Duke, aged about thirty five, was always at the ufual time of 4 wo- 
of the Menftrue Purgationes, extremely troubled with intolerable man who 
pains in her Belly and Loins, with a great prefs downwards, fo ali 
that fometimes fhe had a Suppreffion of her Menfes, and at othet ar cic time 
times a Procidentia uteri. 1 endeavour’d to remedy thefe Accidencs 0! the Cy- 
by all manner of Men/es moventia, bleeding and purging, S:ce!-Courtes, 7" 
P ulegium Decoétions, which prov’d to no purpole for tome Months. 
Then I endeavour’d to Cure this Diftemper by Bleeding, Purg- 
ing, ¢mc. juft before the ufual time of the coming of the Caramena, 
but fhe found very little Amendment. Afterwards I grew a litele 
cautious, left fhe might be with Child, and proceeded no farther. 
’ Tis very ordinary to have betore, or at the beginning of the Cata- 
menia, thele Symptoms, efpecially when the fick Pertons are out of 
order, have receiv'd any injury in Childbed, or are troubl’d with the 
Fluor albus. 1 have feen many methods of Chalybeat and Bath- 
Waters, tried for this Difeafe in feveral perfons without effect. The 
moft eafe they find is by having Children, the Vellels about che 
Uterus being thereby diltended, and afterwards their Pains arc 
leds. 
Robert Nichols, aged Thirty or thereabouts, ufually drunk with Of 4 1% 
Brandy, fell into a violent Hemorrhage at the Nole, icrunning out porhage at 
in great quantity. After a while L was call'd, and order'd him to be the Nola. 
bled at the Arm ten Ounces, and blew up through a Quill a Powder 
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