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belly and thighs, and a fluggiilmefs of 

 the bowels thc-mlelves, attended with a 

 very conliderable lofs of memory. Ma- 

 ny powerful remedies had been tried, 

 •without luccefs, berore Ihe got the hem^ 

 lock. The dofe was never increafed a- 

 bove twelve or fifteen grains twice a day, 

 and file was well in about four months ; 

 but Ihe continued it about a month or 

 fix weeks longer, bihe took no other me- 

 dicine durmgche uie ot it, except the fol- 

 lowing laxative, which was necelTary e* 

 very lecond night, as ihe was coitive. 



J^ Cryflal tartan dr. e,. S.il. polychrejll, 

 gr. xvi, Aloes focotr^nae g? » TL\y. Te- 

 rebhithinae 'ven, gi . iv. Syr de althaea 

 qf. ut. J mujfa divulcuda in pilulas 

 xiii. quarum capiat i. ii vel iii. piout 

 rej ponder int. ^ alternis noBibus. 



I mufl: likewife take notice of another 

 medicine, which I have lately tried, and 

 found ufeful in inward gouts, where the 

 Itomach was affected, viz. a ftrong infu- 



fioa 



