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but, tho' they relieved by operating both up 

 and down, yet they fickened him (o much, 

 that I was obliged to fubftitute a bolus of 

 calomel, over night, and a purging-.ptifan next 

 morning, in their place. The difeafe, how- 

 erer, did not yield j and when the regiment 

 was ordered to march for Berwick upon 

 Tweedst he was put aboard the velTel that 

 carried our baggage. This was a hardy ftep, 

 ponfidering his weakncfs, and the length and 

 danger of the voyage j but he could not be 

 carried with his comrades over the Black 

 mountain, and he defired to die any where, 

 rather than remain in Fort-WilUam. Five or 

 fix weefe after he landed at Berwick^ his. 

 ftools were more numerous, and ftill very 

 painful. Sometimes blood, fometimes llime, 

 fbmetimes ichor, and once he palTed a great 

 quantity of hardened excrements, which re- 

 lieved him of a dull pain of his left hypo- 

 chondre j his legs too, at night, fwelled- 

 and pitted to the touch, and his ftomach was 

 often inflated. Bitters, with fteei, were 

 prefcribed, and camomile tea drank for 

 breakfaft, "while the utmoft regard was 

 had to diet ; the 'vitr. anthnon. was again 

 tried, and alum pofTet recommended. The 



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