Sio ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



(he being then greatly emaciated and 

 worn out by fatigue) to put him every 

 night into bed, where he relied himfelf in 

 a half reclining pofture, for three or four 

 hours, when it became necefTary to put 

 him into his former pofition in the eafy 

 chair j for, if he remained long in bed, he 

 grew very fick. 



About three weeks after he got the 

 fradlure, the grating noife of the bones 

 was very little perceived ; and, in four 

 weeks more, he was able to walk about 

 by a hold. 



And now the fternum and ribs, not- 

 withftanding the motion they had, are 

 fo flraitly united, that it could not be 

 diftinguifhed they had been fradlured,' 

 were it not for a fmall ridge that is all a- 

 long the callus. 



He has, ever fince, conlidering his 

 age, been pretty healthy, only in the 

 morning he is always fick and fqueamiih, 

 which generally goes off in about an 

 hour after he gets out of bed; and, if 

 the weather is hazy, he is breathlefs, and 



frequently 



