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of the patient: or, if ‘the patient’s body has 
been long coftive; arid the excrements harden- 
ed, emollient, glyfters may be‘ ufed. | Such 
pretty full and frequent, ordered her to be blooded, to 
take the decoftum tamarindorum of the Edinburgh Difpenfa- 
tory, and to {wallow four of the following pills thrice a-day. 
R. Extra. cort. Peruvian. drach. ii. balfam. Peruvian. ferup. i. 
pulv. cort. Peruvian. q. f: ut. f: maffay ex cujus fingul. drachm» 
formentur pil. xii: The blooding and decoétion were ‘repeat- 
ed as often as they feemed neceffary; and the pills were con- 
tinued ten weeks without fuccefs:’ for foon after fhe left off 
ufing them, fhe began to cough up purulent matter with 
blood. Whenever the fpitting diminifhed, her breathing be- 
came very difficult ; and the pain of her breaft increafed, 
with a particular forenefs all along the breaft-bone when fhe 
coughed. a 
She drank goat's and ewe’s whey, from the beginning of 
Fune, to the end of Axguft, without any fenfible benefit ; 
for fhe continued {till to {pit blood and matter: foon after 
this, fhe was attacked with fudden flufhes of heat and morn- 
ing fweats, which-increafed till the middle of Faxwary 1952, 
when fhe was become feebler,'much emaciated, and often 
faintith. . At this time, fhe was advifed'to drink the Hartfell 
Spaw in finall quantity; but, finding it fit eafy on her fto- 
mach, fhe drunk an Exg/i/h pint of it daily. During the firft 
week after drinking the water, fhe expectorated dark, blucith, 
pucrid ftuff, without. blood; ‘and found her breaft much 
eafier thaniit had been any time’ from the beginning of her 
illnefSs. Soon after, fhe began’ to breathe freely ; and, after 
having drank the water fix weeks, ‘was perfectly recovered : 
fince which time, fhe walked, ‘or rather run, three Scotch 
miles in an hour, without being either hurt, or much fatigued 
by its 
