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denly ftopt ; and from this time flie was 

 in a very bad ftate of health. Her fymp- 

 toms were, conftant head-achs, laflitude, 

 pain in her back, dejection of fpirits, and 

 fuch a diforder in her llomach, that flic 

 vomited every thing flie eat j her pulfe 

 low, and fo flow that it beat only betwixt 

 forty and fifty ftrokes in the minute. 



To remove thefe complaints, which 

 feemed to proceed from an obftruclion of 

 the men/eSf I ordered her vomits of dif- 

 ferent kinds, elix. facr. bark, fl;eel, bitters, 

 in fliort, all kinds of deobflruent medi- 

 cines, and all to no purpofe. Ligatures 

 too were put round her thighs, as defcri- 

 bed by Dr Hamilton in Eflays Phyfical 

 and Literary, vol. 2. p. 403. and flie went 

 to the country, and rode every day : But 

 all in vain ; no return of the menfes. She 

 fays, that drinking germander tea car- 

 ried oflFthe diforder in her fl:omach, and 

 her appetite turned better. 



Upwards of a year ago, finding I 

 could do her no fervice, I gave over vi- 

 fiting her. 



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