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pifms were applied to the foles of his 
feet, and epifpaftics to the region of the 
ftomach, with fome fuccefs. A bolus of 
bark, caftor, and camphire was given e- 
very third hour, and wafhed down with 
a glafs of mulled claret ; his guts too were 
fomented with anodyne, emollient, and 
antifeptic clyfters. By thefe his deadly 
fymptoms left him, he could fit up at the 
fire, and had not above 12 ftools in the 
_ 24 hours, which were however ftill icho-_ 
rous. I could not find from the nurfe 
that he ever paffed any of the villous coat 
of the guts, though /cybala were frequent- 
ly evacuated, About the end of May, 
he was able to walk round the ramparts 
of Fort-William, and he told he thought . 
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he would recover, were he fent from Locha- — 
bar. On this, he was carried, by water, 
to the Ifle of Mull, being provided with 
proper medicines to forward his recovery. 
Here, though the hiccup and facies bippo- 
cratica did not recur, yet his gripes did; 
and he purged blood and worms almoft 
inceffantly. The latter end of July, he 
was fent back to the Fort a perfect fkele- 
ton 5; 
