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lips, were of a more florid red colour than 
ufual. 
6. Very few complained of thirft, tho’ 
they had a great defire for cold liquors. 
7. THE vomiting or reaching to vomit 
increafed, and in fome was fo conftant, 
that neither medicines nor aliment of any 
kind were retained. Some vomited blood ; 
others only what was laft exhibited, mixed 
with phlegm ; and others again had what 
is called the black vomit *. The reaching 
to vomit continued a longer or fhorter 
time, according to the ftate of the pulfe ; 
for, as that became fuller, and the heat 
greater, the reaching to vomit abated, and, : 
é contra, 
8, FHEe 
* That which is called the Black vomit, at firkt fight, 
appears to be black ; but, ona more careful examination, 
T obferved, that this colour proceeded from a great quan- 
tity of fmall, flakey, black fubftances which floated ia the 
’ liquor thrown up by vomit ; but the colour of this liquor 
Was much the fame with that which the patient had laft 
drank, and was by no means black. Thofe black flakey' 
fabftances are the bile mixed with, or adhering to, the 
meus which lined the ftomach, For, upon diffection of 
thofe 
