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he began to it, to his Icift ficknefs ; and 

 that, from the firll attack of the haemop' 

 toe, to his d,eath, he had lived in a very re • 

 gular manner, eating of the lighted fleili 

 meats, and that fparingly, living chiefly 

 iipon vegetables, drinking a little pure 

 wine, feldom any malt liquor, keeping 

 good hours, and ufing conllantly mode- 

 rate exerclfe, moiily on horfeback. 



About the middle of March laft, 1760, 

 the patient began j:o complain of great 

 want of reft, and,, about three or four 

 weeks after, of a tenefmus, of gripes, 

 and mucous fiools ftreaked with blood : 

 But this difcrder of the bowels, after two 

 dofes of rhubarb, foon yielded to fome 

 draughts of oil and manna, taken twice* 

 a day. However, as the watchfulnefs 

 continued, and the patient felt (ome more 

 than ufual pain in his belly, towards the 

 ]Qh fide, apprehending a return of th^ 

 gravel, he firft confulted Dr Duncan, and, 

 in a few days after (on the 27th of April) 

 he like wife called m.e. 



At that time he was troubled with 

 a. hiccup, which had begun the day be- 

 fore 



