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_ * Feb, 5. 1756. 
PHYSICAL anp LITERARY. 279 
ART. XIll. 
An Account of an uncommon Effedt of anti- 
monial Wine; by Dr JAMES WALKER 
Surgeon and Agent for the Navy at Edin- 
burgh *. 
{ HE winum benedictum is univerfally 
known to bea ftrong emetic, when 
given in a large dofe; and it has alfo been 
often prefcribed in fmaller quantities as 
an attenuant, fudorific, and diuretic: But 
an accident lately difcovered to mea very 
different effect of it from any of the a= 
bove mentioned. 
BEING one evening, in December 1755, 
a little hot and feverifh, with a quick and 
full pulfe, I went early to bed, and drank 
a full Englifh pint of fack whey, which 
. Thad ordered one to make for me. Very 
foon after this, I fell afleep, and continued 
all night oppreffed with an unufual drow- 
finefs: At ten next morning, I with great 
difficulty got fo far the better of this le- 
_ thargic difpofition, as to get out of bed ; 
when 
