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time often urged the neceflity of further 
advice; but his friends would. not con- 
fent to it, till, at laft, Iwas called in. I 
found him in continual tremors and /ué- 
fultus tendinum; his pulfe was fmall and 
obfcure, his tongue foul and dufky; and 
his urine had only a flight cloud in it, 
. His eyes were fo dim, he could fcarce di- 
ftinguifh the perfons about him; and it 
was very difficult to make him hear, e- 
{pecially on the right fide. He.was reit- 
lefs, languid, and delirious; often groan- 
ed and fighed, and was flill bathed in a’ 
perpetual fweat. Some red {pots appear- 
ed upon his breaft, and many purple and 
livid ones on his back. 
As he had been coftive for fome days, 
firft a ftool or two was procured by a 
warm clyfter, fome antimonial drops © 
(which I have often experienced to deferve 
very juftly the encomiums Dr Huxham* 
has beftowed upon them as an excellent 
_ deobftruent) were given now and then in 
red wine. Elixir of vitriol and volatile 
tincture — 
* Obf. de aere, vol. i. p. 141. 
