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One Pavey, of about Fifty five years of age, complain’d to me of 
a great Oppreffion, or Lump at her Stomach, that fhe could nor Of ah op- 
fwallow nor eat, fhe had likewife a pain there. I durft not give her i - 
a Vomit for her weaknefsand age, but [ ordered herabout Fifteen mach. — 
gr.ot Pil. Coch.Min. in two Pills, with which fhe was gently purg’d and 
well, 
A Cooper had a blow on the Sternum, with a Horfes Foot, which 
healing, hada knot or Callus vifible on it, he complain’d of a great 
and conftant pain at his Stomach, which had been proof to feveral 
methods us’d by feveral Phyficians. I fufpeéted it might be a de- 
preflion of the Cartilago enfiformis, and order'd him to be Cupt on Of a de- 
it, toendeavour drawing of it ro its place. allo order'd a ftickin apes of 
Plaifter to be drawn violently off of his Breaft, with which he found >), and 
relief} but not fo much as when at Sea. I doubted Whether the Carrilago 
Compreffio in congreffu Venereo might not deprefs the Sternum and make #77" 
him worfe, he being worfe every morning when at home, and bet- 
ter when he was at Sea abfent from his Wife. 
Mr. F— aged about Twenty tour, extremely Corpulent and Far, 
us'd to eat very heartily, and drink very hard without any great pre- 
judice. One evening he made a Challenge to another, whothought 
himfelf able to bear more drink than he, defiring him before the pre- 
{ent Company to come to a fair tryal in that matter. They had drank, 
by computation, about a Quart and a half before Supper, and at Sup- 
per, in about three quarters of an hours time, drank to, and pledg’d 
one another in fix Draughts of Madera Wine, drunk out of fix Ca- 
labafhes or Cups, holding each a Quart by meafure. The drink- 
ing fo hard, and in fo {hort a time, feiz’d this Gentleman all of an 
inftant, that his Eyesturn’d in his Head, ftood fix'd, and he began of two 
to fink down in his Chair. He was carried out of the Room, and Perfons _ 
plac’d ina greatarm’d Chair, where he immediately fell into an ex- Genii 
traordinary deep Sleep. Nature ftruggling, and making now and quantity 
then an effort in the Stomach to difgorge what was unwelcome to it % Wine. 
both in quantity and quality, was always checke chrough his faft 
Sleep, Ithought I could hear a begun Vomit in the bottom of the 
Stomach towards the Oefophagus, but being fo faft afleep, that he 
could not give way to it, it was ftopt there, and could get no far- 
ther. He waslikewifein danger by his Head hanging in feveral Po- 
ftures, whereby in fome the A/pera Arteria might be comprefled, or 
the Jugular Veins, that he might be ftrangled. To avoid this [ fet 
one ortwo to watch and keep his Head in fuch a pofition as might 
hinder thofe Accidents, and forward as much as might be Vomiting, 
which Llikewife did by thrufting Feathers as long as{ could get into 
(gg) his 
