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1 found him in continual tremors and fubfuU 

 tm tendimm j , his pulfe was fmall and ob^ 

 fcure, his tongue foul and dufky ; and his 

 urine had only a flight cloud in it. His eyes 

 were fo dim, he could fcarce diftinguifh the 

 perfons about him ; and it was very difficult 

 to make him hear, efpecially on the right 

 fide. He was reftlefs, languid, and deli- 

 rious; often groaned and fighed, and was flill 

 bathed in a perpetual fweat. Some red fpots 

 appeared upon his bread, and many purple 

 and livid ones on his back. 



As he had been coftive for fome days, firft 

 a ftool or two was procured by a warm cly- 

 fter, fome antimonial drops (which I have 

 often experienced to deferve very juftly the 

 encomiums Dr. Huxham * has beftowed upon 

 them as an excellent deobflruent) were given 

 now and then in red wine. Elixir of vitriol 

 and volatile tincture of bark were admini- 

 ftred, firft in faline draughts, and afterwards 

 in tindture of rofes. Within three days, his 

 fweats were gradually checked, the xtd pa- 

 pules came to a kindly fuppuration, the livid 

 fpots difappeared, the tremors, fubfultus^ and 

 delirium went off. An abfcefs (which I had 



foretold 

 * Obf. d€ acre, vol. i. p. 141. 



