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ftill increafing, he went abroad and drank 
tea about fix o'clock; and with ‘great 
difficulty could keep awake, having fome- 
times let fall the tea-{poon infenfibly. He 
complained of a great uneafinefs and dry- 
nefs of his throat, and that the tea in 
{wallowing was like to choak him. He 
had alfo fome gripes in his belly. After 
he drank tea, he was foon feized with con- 
vulfions and fo great a degree of infenfi- 
bility, that he did not know the people 
who were in company with him. He 
. fpoke many incoherent things, and, at the | 
beginning of his illnefs, faid he was afraid 
- he had taken poifon, The people who 
- were with him being alarmed, ordered 
hi m to be carried home, and fent for me. 
1 found him incapable of giving any ac- 
count of his misfortune. His eyes were 
open and rolling, now and then he was 
feized with tremors, ftartings, ‘and cor- 
-vulfions, grapling the bed-cloaths, his 
head, face, nofe, and other parts of his 
body, in the manner patients frequently 
do 
