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began to purge blood. This purging and ^ 

 gripes increafed, and were attended with 

 a quick pulfe, a total lofs of appetite, and 

 a great ficknefs at the ttomach. 



He was twice blooded, took three vo- 

 mits of ipecacuanha, a dofe of rhubarb, • 

 with confe&iojaponica, once in two nights ; 

 and a mixture of mint-water and japo- 

 nic confection by fpoonfulls, four times 

 a day. He had likewife taken, after the 

 third day, from twenty to thirty drops 

 of laudanum every night, at bed-time ; 

 and, when the gripes were, mod violent, 

 warm fomentations had been applied to 

 his belly. 



Although, by thefe remedies, the 

 purging was, in a fortnight, ienfibly a- 

 bated; yet the want of appetite, or rather 

 an utter averfion to all food, continued ; 

 and, to the other fymptoms, was added 

 a great faintnefs, with a quick and 

 low pulfe- -As his tongue began now 

 to grow whiter than it had been at firft, 

 I fu(pe<5led an aphthous cruft to be faft 

 coming on; and therefore ordered the de- 



codion 



