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Arong In what he threw up. Having a great 

 (trought, he drank a great deal more warm 

 water, and continued vomiting all the af- 

 ternoon. About eight in the evening, his 

 furgeon-apothecary faw him, and made 

 liim continue to drink warm water, vo- 

 iviitiDg always from time to time, till half 

 an hour after nine, at which time I firffc 

 vif.ted him. 



Hk complained then of a confufion in 

 his head and giddinefs, though not near 

 fo violent as they had been fome hours 

 before. He had hkewife a general heat 

 and drought v»^hich had continued from 

 the time that he began to vomit. He faid 

 that he had ilept only a few minutes be-^ 

 iwcen {even and eight o'clock ; fgr, though 

 he was dro\vfy and endeavoured to getfleep, 

 lie found it would not come. His pulfewas 

 eighty-tvv^o in a minute, weak and foft. I 

 ordered him immediately two ounces of 

 ihxir J.'icyum, to be taken at twice, with a 

 htile interval ; I forbid him to drink any 

 more water, and prefcribed a blifter to- be 

 applied to his back. 



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