PHYSICAL AND LITERARY 407^ 



Art. XXXIL 



A Dropfy unexpeBedly cured j by Thomas 



Livingston Phyfician at Aberdeen*. 



AS thofe who are much converfant in the 

 pradice of phyfic and furgery, may 

 be frequently difappointed In their favour- 

 able prognoftics, fo they may fometimes be 

 agreeably furprifed with the unexpeded re-* 

 covery of patients, whofe fymptoms they 

 had pronounced mortal ; an inftance of 

 which, I prefume, will plainly appear in the 

 hiftory of the following cafe. 



Robert Duncan, aged about 20 years, 

 a labouring fervant in the country, was 

 brought to the Infirmary of Aberdeen "June 

 19. 1753. He was fo weak, that he co,uld 

 give no account of the origin or progrefs of 

 his difeafe ; but thofe who attended him 

 from the country informed me, that during 

 the preceeding winter he had been much ex- 

 pofed to cold, after which his belly and lower 

 extremities began to fwell j he contraded an 

 intenfe thirfl, with a paucity of urine j loft 



his 



* February 6. 1755. 



