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Brick-duft, se on 
Major Thomas Ballard, Plethoric, of a Sanguine Com lexion 
aged about Thirty five, much given to readin Sabie Wek Of anex- 
ing, and fitting up late, fometimes for feveral nights together wich. '#0Fdina- 
out Sleep, was, ‘after a Debauch in Brandy for fome da did sey eal 
aiak ch YS and tion of the 
ignts without Reft taken extremely ill, He fent for me, I found Heart. 
him complaining very much of a giddinefs in his Head, Palpitation 
or as he call’d it, a fluttering at his Heart, very great Faintings, cold 
jue bg Ase span Thele shat were not always 
Be sitte legen | sabia much abated, and would return 
y or night with great violence, infomuch that 
there feemed to be great hazard of his Life, and that he could not be 
brought to Sleep, I was at firft very apprehenfive of an Apoplexy, 
and therefore had him bled, and for his fainting Fits he took now 
and then fome Cordials, as they are call’d, made of Aq. Ceraf. Nigr. 
Peon, Comp. with fome Bezoar or Gafcoyne-Powder in them. By thefe 
means the cold Sweats were taken off, and he ac prefent relieved. He 
had likewife fome Volatile Salt of Sal Armoniac to {mell to, fome Ol. 
Succini to take fome times, and fome Sp. C..C. at others. He was 
alfo bliftered in the Neck and Arms, and had an Iffue cut in his Left 
Arm. Notwithftanding thefe Medicines, his Faintings and Palpi- 
tation continued, I gave him Betony, Sage, and Kofemary, to 
make of them a Decoétion to be drank after the manner of Tea, 
many Preparations of Caftor, and a little Gafcoyne-Powder feveral 
times in his Cordial Juleps. He was, likewile, at the inftance of 
fome, Bled in the Foot once or twice, but I could not find any of 
thefe things to relieve very manifeftly, only the Dileale leem'd to go 
off infenfibly by degrees, and was in fome weeks, by the help of 
Infufions of Hierapicra, and Purges of Diagridium, ec. carried off, 
His Diftemper neverthelefs lurk’d fo about him, that drinking very 
much, riding in the Sun, or any thing: heating the Blood, imme 
diately brought a Parexifm, which did not eafily yieldto any Medi- 
cines, till ic wrought off by degrees of its felf by cemperace living, 
I was very apprehenfive chat chele Symptoms proceeded from a Po- 
lypus, lodg’d omewhere in the great Veffels near che Heart, and ad- 
vis'd him, on that fcore, to great Temperance, and a Steel Courle, 
It is very plain this Difeate mult have come from lome great dilorder 
about the Heart, upon the Blood its coming thither in quanuity, 
and not being able to be difcharged from thence ; but by ralpicatt- 
ons of reiterated Pullations and efforts, 1 have feen tuch a Diitem- 
er more than once come from bony Excrefcencies about the Aorta, 
great Artery, or Valves of the Heare: perhaps fuch cumeene> 
might 
