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282 ESSAYS anp OBSERVATIONS 
ART. XIV, 
An obftinate Dy fentery cured by Lime-water: 
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by }ames GRAINGER, M. 
bi on hor‘ 
at London ™*. 
Arfdale, a ftout, middle aged, but 
intemperate foldier, was feized, November 
1751, with thivering and other fymptoms 
that precede an acute diforder. The day 
following, he went frequently to ftool, 
and evacuated blood to the quantity of a: 
gili every quarter of an hour. Tho’ the 
fever was inconfiderable, yet, as he was » 
ot a fanguine habit, the lancet was not 
fpared. He fwallowed fome ipecacuan 
vomits; was gently purged every third 
day with rhubarb; and had fmall quan- 
tities of opium at bed time to hinder his 
-  rifing in the night. The third week his 
fundament came down, attended with but 
little pain, uulefs when he went to ftool. 
This fymptom, however, wrac timeoufly. 
removed by fomentations of a decotne- 
of oak-bark, December; his ftools, tho’ 
lefs / 
* May 3. 1753. 
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