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| be of fome fervice here: And therefore I 
fent her the following bolus. 
R Cinnab, nativ. 
3 Antimon. ana gr. XXv. 
Mofch. opt. gr. xvi. 
- Syrebalf gq. f- F- bolus. 
Bur although this is Mr Read’s com- 
mon‘dofe; yet, as fhe was very weak, I or- 
dered her to take only the one half of it 
immediately, drinking after it a cup of 
brandy, and the other half in fix hours af- 
ter. Next morning 1 found her much 
better, having from the firft dofe no more 
convulfions in her ftomach. I then ven- 
tured to give hera whole bolus at 9 o’clock 
in the morning, to be repeated every four 
hours until fuch time as fhe fhould fleep 
or {weat : And, notwithftanding the cold- 
nefs of the weather, and her being obliged 
to fit in a chair; yet, by the time fhe had 
_ taken four bolufes, a plentiful fweat and 
_ fleep enfued, and then fhe was able to lie 
ina horizontal pofture on her couch with- 
out the return of her former fymptoms. 
This 
