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^nd drynefs of his throat, and that the tea 

 in fwallovving was Hke to choak him. He 

 had alfo fome gripes in his belly. After he 

 drank tea, he was foon feized with convul- 

 fions and fo great a degree of infenfibility, 

 that he did not know the people who were 

 in company with him. He fpoke many in- 

 coherent things, and at the beginningT)f his 

 illnefs faid he was afraid he had taken poi- 

 fon. The people who were with him be- 

 ing alarmed, ordered him to be darried home, 

 and Cent for me. 1 folind him incapable Ctf 

 giving any account "of his misfortune^ His 

 eyes were open and rolling, now and then 

 he was feized with tremors, ftartings, and 

 convulfic>ns, grapling the bed-cloaths. His 

 head, face, nofe, and other parts of his bo- 

 dy, in the manner patients frequently do in 

 nervous fevers. His pulfe exceffively fmall 

 and low with fuhfulfus tendimim. The fenfe 

 of feeling feemed alfo impaired ; for when 

 I pinched his ikin, he made no complaint. 

 He had no inclination to vomit, nor had any 

 flool from the time he took the feed. I or- 

 dered him immediately a vomit ; and in the 

 fnean time Dr. Bojivell was fent for. He fpit 

 put the vomit as foon as it was poured in- 

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