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" Tlie fecond day after beginning the 

 ** undion, there appeared a very fenfiblc 

 *• abatement of all the fymptoms. All 

 " the cramps, convullive Ipafms, and 

 *' racking pains gradually ceafed j and, 

 " by the (ixth or feventh day from be- 

 " ginning the mercury, he was very near 

 *' intirely free of the ftifFnefs and rigi- 

 " dity wh'ich had been univerfal over his 

 " whole body. He began, by degrees, to 

 " get his jaws opened wider and wider, and 

 " to move all the members of his body, 

 ** though extremely debilitated, by the 

 " ftrong, continual, and lading convul- 

 " (ions with which they had been feized. 

 " He began too, by degrees, to recover his 

 " appetite, and wanted to get out of bed 

 ** fooner than we thought fafe, from the 

 " previous ufe of the mercury. He got 

 " feveral laxative ptifans to carry oflF the 

 ** mercury, and continues dill entirely free 

 ** from any complaints. 

 I am, Sec. 



John Hall.'*^ 



Linton, June I. 

 1760. 



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