4|« ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



Art. XXXIII. 



Miflory ff- a Patient- offered with Ferjodic 

 Nephritic Connjulfions y by Cgrnweli» 

 Tathwell M, D. Phyfician^at^i^rxi' 

 ford *. 



A Fair healthy looking girl, of a full 

 habit of body, aged 17, about the be- 

 ginning of, laft Jidj^ without any warning, 

 fell into violent and general convulfions, and 

 a ftrong dilirium, which lafted about fix 

 hours, then ended in fleep, and left a giddi- 

 nefs behind them for fome time. As foon as 

 the fit was off, fhe was blooded and bliflered 

 by her Apothecary, and feemed to have got 

 well. In about three vveeks after, a diarrhcea 

 came- on, and ihe complained a little of a 

 a flight pain in her back and bowels j and 

 in a month from the firft feizure, being a 

 few days before the full moon, flie had a 

 fecond fit about as long as the form.er, 

 which ended in the fame manner. Soon 

 after this fit, her tongue was of a dufky 



colourj 



• May I. 1755= 



