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that fhe was able foon RE to come dain 
ftairs; but her conftitution was too much. broken to 
admit of a recovery. 
CAS E. GXXXIL 
July 16th. Mr. B——, of W: peobths phe 
After a tertian ague of 12 months pac ation: fuf- 
fered great indifpofition for 10 months more. He 
chiefly complained of great firaitnefs and pain in 
the hypochondriac region, very fhort. breath, 
{welled legs, want of appetite. He had been under 
the care of fome very fenfible practitioners, but his 
complaints increafed, and he determined to come to 
Birmingham. I found him fupported upright’ in 
his chair, by. pillows, . every attempt to lean back 
or ftoop forward giving him the fenfation of inftanta- 
neous fuffocation, He faid he had not been in bed 
for many weeks. _ His countenance was, funk and 
pale ; his lips livid; his belly, thighs and legs 
very greatly {wollen ; hands and feet cold, the 
nails almoft black, pulfe 160 tremulous beats in a 
minute, but the pulfation in the carolid arteries. 
was fuch as to be vifible to the eye, and to 
fhake his head fo that he could not hold it fill. 
His thirft was very great, his urine {mall in quant 
and he was difpofed to purge. I imm 
ordered a fpoonful of the infufum Digit 
fx: hours, with a fmall quantity of 
