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a light reddifh colour in the middle of 

 the tumour, and we began to fufpecl that 

 it would break outwardly. 



From her firft admiflion into the, hof- 

 pital, it was evident what the cafe was ; 

 and therefore I ordered her no other me- 

 dicine but a faline draught twice a day 

 to amufe her; and added to it, occafional- 

 ly, a little magnefia alba^ or gave her a lit- 

 tle lenitive elecluary when fhe was co- 

 flive, and an opiate at night, when Ihe 

 complained much of pain through the day; 

 and I allowed her whatever fort of mild 

 food fhe had a mind for. 



Four weeks before her death, her pain 

 increafed, and fhe became low; and faid, 

 Ihe felt as if a flream of cold water was 

 running down from the tumour into the 

 lower part of the left fide of her belly. 



For a week before her death, the pain 

 became fo excruciating, that, though flie 

 took a grain of opium every tv>?o or three 

 hours, fhe found no relief, and could not 

 lie with eafein any pofture ; and flie funk 

 daily, and died the 24th of March 1769. 



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