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ment, and the whole may add to that weight of evi- 
dence which long experience enables you to -ad- 
duce of the efficacy of that valuable medicine. I 
have recited the only inftances of its failure which 
occur to me, but many other, though fuccefsful 
cafes, wherein its utility might feem dubious, and 
alfo the accounts received from people whofe accu- 
racy might_be fufpected, I fhall not for obvious rea- 
fous trouble jour with, 
Shiffnall, 3 WILLIAM | YONGE. 
May 1; bites 
5, Fee 55 «8 E- SS Pes 
A Gentleman. aged 49, on the night of ‘the 
ont of Auguft, 1784, awaked witha fenfe of fuffo- 
cat — obliged him to rife up { padesly j 
5 =a “That. evening an emetic of pPaaneaae 
nd. afterwards. a draught, with vitriolic, ethe 
