PHYSICAL AND LITERARY. 183 



On the 2d of April, he went home ; but 

 was an out patient of the hofpital till he 

 died ; and I vificed him once a week, or 

 ofcener, as it gave him fatisfa<5lion, and 

 I was defirous of feeing the progrefs of 

 the diforder. He continued the ufe of 

 the medicines already mentioned j and 

 tifed no other remedies, excepting that, 

 when he was in great pain, he rubbed the 

 right ham with fweet oil, or fome fofc 

 liniment, which he thought gave him a 

 little prefent eafe. 



Fj<om the time of his firjft coming ta 

 the hofpital, the fwelling in the right 

 ham and knee gradually incrcafed, and 

 the pulfation as gradually diminifh^ 

 ed, fo that at laft it could not be percei- 

 ved. About the end of April, the fwel* 

 ling was increafed to a prodigious fize, 

 attended with excruciating pain: The 

 integuments began to rile into a point 

 in the middle, and afterwards gradually 

 grew thinner, and more inflamed, till the 

 8th of June, when the blood began to 

 ooze through the ildn : Upon which one 



of 



