252 E5SAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



"^ Cimiab. ?iativ. 



Antimon. aim gr. xxv. 

 Mofch. opt. gr. xvi. 

 Syr. half. q.f. F.- bolus. 



But altho' this is Mr. Read's common 

 dofe, yet, as fhe was very weak, I ordered 

 her to take only the one half of it imme^ 

 diately, drinking after it a cup of brandy, 

 and the other half in fix hours after. Next 

 morning I found her much better, having 

 from the firft dofe no more convulfions in 

 her ftomach. I then ventured to give her 

 a whole bolus at 9 o'clock in the morning, 

 to be repeated every four hours until fuch 

 time as fhe (hould fleep or I'weat : and not- 

 withftanding the coldnefs of the weather, 

 and her being obliged to fit in a chair, yet, 

 by the time flie had taken four bolufes, a 

 plentiful fweat and fleep enfued, and then 

 fhe was able to lie in a horizontal pofture on 

 her couch without the return of her former 

 fymptoms. This fweat continued from the 

 afternoon of the 2 2d till the 24th at night, 

 with very little intermiflion. I gave over 

 the bolufes and ordered her a julep, to eight 

 quinces of which I put twelve grains of muflc. 



