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eyes languid, his countenance faded, and ~ 
a cold clamy fweat was over all his body, 
I made the prognofis of his having very 
few hours tolive. He died before five of 
the atternoon, fo that his difeafe killed 
him in eighteen hours ; and I have heard 
of others who died in lefs than twelve 
hours after the firft appearance of inflam- 
mation. 
THE common practice of taking fpiri- 
tuous liquors, or the warm carminatives, 
when people feel colic-pains, is often un- 
lucky, and public warning fhould be gi- 
ven againit it; for, tho’ relief is found 
from fuch things in the windy or f{pafmo- 
dic colics, which is not a deadly difeafe, yet 
* they hurry onthe inflammatory ones fo faft 
that they foon prove mortal. I muft like- 
wife think that writers on the inflammation 
of the inteftines don’t reprefent ftrongly e- 
nough the languor and low {mall pulfe 
which fuch patients generally have more 
than in moft other difeafes. Itis fuch, that 
I have feen feveral cafes, where people of 
fill, deceived by thefe fymptoms, have 
been afraid to order blood-letting, left the 
” patient 
