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These fymptoms continued rather 

 increafing than abating till March i ith ; 

 yet he was quite fenfible during that 

 •whole time, and had even fome appetite 

 for food. 



In the mean time, Mr Hall and Mr 

 Reid furgeon at Peebles, Who had like- 

 wife been called to him, had bled him 

 twice; had purged and bliftered him fe- 

 veral times ; had thrown in glyrters oc- 

 cafionally ; had ufed the pediluvium; 

 and, after it, applied anodyne cataplafms 

 to his foles ; and had given him mufk 

 and opium in confiderable quantity, to 

 wit, of the former, ten grains, and of the 

 latter two grains, twice or thrice a-day 

 at firft ', but, for feveral days paft, thac 

 quantity had been taken every fourth 

 hour. 



Dr Cull en and I were now (March 

 nth) confulted about him, by letters 

 from Mr Hall and Mr Reid. 



The caufe of his fymptoms feemed 

 very uncertain to us ; for, although we 

 fufpeded, as Mr Hall and Mr Reid had 

 done, that thefe chiefly or entirely pro • 



ceeded 



