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Fourteenth day. She had two loofe flools, much inter- 

 mixed v/ith blood, and complained of great forenefs of her belly, 

 increafed by preffure. I prefcribed a little caftor oil. Other 

 medicines as before, except the draught. 



Fifteenth day. She had had two flools fomewhat bloody the 

 night before, and one almoft natural in the morning. Pulfe fe- 

 venty-feven, and of pretty good ftrength. Skin quite cool. 

 Spirits better. And fome little appetite. Menfes had appeared 

 in the morning. I direded the medicines to be continued as 

 before. 



From this time fhe recovered apace, and in about a week had 

 no complaint but weaknefs. Exercife, however, and the country 

 air, foon completely re-eflablifhed her health. 



After this full ftatement of a cafe very diftindly marked, it 

 would be fuperfluous to add any thing by way of comment. I 

 have only to obferve, that whether this diforder be contagious or 

 not is a queftion which may poflibly ftill admit of fome doubt ; 

 though from what I have feen, or been able to colled, I am 

 incHned to think that it is not. Almoft all the inftan- 

 ces of this diforder which are precife or well attefted I have 

 enumerated ; and they are all folitary examples, no two of them 

 having happened at the fame time or place. I fufped, there- 

 fore, that fome other diforders have been oftentimes miftaken 

 for pemphigus ; and that from thence, or from fome preconceived 

 theory, the notion has arifen. When I was afliftant to Dr. Home, 

 in the clinical ward of the infirmary at Edinburgh, a patient was 



fent 



