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ing calomel, faline draughts, jallap purges, chryftals * 
of tartar, pills of gum ammoniac, {quills, and 
foap, fal fuccini, eleterium, &c. infufion of Digi- 
talis was direéted, which removed all his urgent: 
fymptoms, and he recovered a pretty good ftate of 
health. ei 
CANSS Ris ERI; 
September 11th. I was defired to vifit Mr. L——, 
#t. 63; a middle fized man; rather thin; not ha- 
bitually intemperate ; found him in bed, where he 
had been for three days. He was in a ftate of furi- 
_ ous infanity, and had been gradually lofing his rea- 
fon for ten days before, but was not outrageous the 
firft week: his apothecary had given him ten grains 
of emetic tartar, a dram of ipecacoanha, and an’ 
ounce of tincture of jallap, in the fpace of a few 
hours, which fearcely made him fick, and only oc- 
afioned a ftool or uiring i be 
was often obliged to fit up 
cand, for the laft year 
eat, when he lay — 
_ the greater part 
the fenfe of fuffocation was | 
down, that he often fat up for a eek together. His 
father died of an afthma before he was fifty. A few 
; years ago, ake an eleQion, where ; he drank more o 
_ than ufual, his head was affe@ed as now, but in Ae 
now, notwithftanding he has been feveral 
gu 
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