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occafion he recover’d very well, but would not be perfuaded to 
rife out of Bed, He thoughr himfelf very ill, that he fhotid not 
live, buc certainly dye of this Illnefs, his mind beino very much OF one 
funk within him, I advis'd the People about him to dear him as who dyed 
much as poffible, to eale his mind, and get him up out of Bed. of an ill — 
He died being very morofe and {eem’d to have no Diftemper eicalih 
on him bur Sullennefs and Melancholy, and though I took much 274 Me- 
pains to examine him nicely, I could find no Difeafe, but only ical? 
he faid he was fure , fay what I could, that he would not recover. 
The Paffions of the Mind, both Hope and Fear, havea very great 
influence on the Body. 
A Lady about Thirty five years of Age, little, of a Sanguine 
Conftitution, the Mother of many Children, ‘at the Bitth of each 
of them had fo copious a Flux of the Lochia that it endanger'd her 
life. She had about a month of her Reckoning yet to come, 
when, without any extraordinary occafion, fhe was taken with 
oreat pains, as if {he were to be delivr’d; they were foon follow’d 
by a very copious Flux of Blood. I was fent for, and took with Ord 
me all manner of Adftringents, as well as Forcers, to endeavour ing. ae 
the Birth of the Child, for in fuch a cafe when the Fetus keeps 
the capacity of the Uterus diftended, ‘tis impoffible to ftop the 
Flux of Blood till the Woman is delivr’'d. Therefore if the flood. 
ing be not eafily ftopc, the belt way is to force it away, whereby 
the Veffels of the Uterus being corrugated, the Blood by degrees 
ftops of its felf. This muft be endeavour’d by all means without 
delay, for in the Blood is the Life. Though I haftened all I could 
{he was expiring when I came, and had fuffered a very extraordinary 
Flux of Blood, was delivered three quarters of an hour before fhe 
died, and had been bled fome hours before. Af this dangerous 
Diftemper had been timely remedied, by forcing the Child away, 
the Mother might in all human probability have been fav’d. It is 
ordinary that the MenStru.e Purgationes here, are both lefs in quan- 
tity, and continue for a fhorter time than they do in Enrope. 
Mrs. Aylmer, aged about Thirty five years, a {pare lean Woman, 
giving fuck to one of her Children Thirteen months old, was taken 
very il] in an Epidemic Conftitution of an intermitting Fever: The 
Paroxifms returned fometimes every day, and at other times every Of an In- 
other day. She had gone through feveral Febrifuge Courfes of Vo- comes 
mits, Gentian-Reots, Centaury the lefler tops, Carduns Bened. Swear“ 
ters, 7c. without relief. She complain’d of her feverifhneis and a 
pain on the Region of her Spleen, which was fomewhat {well’d. 
The Fits of her Fever decreafed upon taking the Cort. Pern. I ad- 
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