250 ACCOUNT OF MARGARET LYALL, WHO CONTINUED 
eessarily minute, or even altogether unimportant ; but, in de- 
tailing so remarkable a case, I did not think myself qualified or 
entitled to select according to my own judgment ; and consi- 
dered it to be my business, as a reporter, merely to relate, as 
clearly and correctly as possible, whatever was observable in the 
situation of the patient. I have noted, also, her previous em- 
ployment, the places where she resided, and some of the indi- 
viduals who attended to her case, partly to render the account 
more intelligible, and partly to enable others to make farther 
inquiries for themselves. I may mention farther, in case you 
may not be aware of the circumstance, that there is a similar 
case recorded in the T'ransactions of the Royal Society of Lon- 
don for 1705, vol. xxiv. p. 2177. 
Yours, &c. 
To Dr Brewster. Jas. Brewster. 
Margaret Lyatt, a young woman, about twenty-one years 
of age, daughter of Joun Lyat1, shoemaker in the parish of 
Marytown, served during the winter half-year preceding 
Whitsunday 1815, in the family of Perrr Arxiry, Esq. of 
Dunninald, in the parish of Craig. At the last mentioned 
term, she went as servant to the Reverend Mr Foorr of Lo- 
gie; but, in a few days after entering her place, was seized with 
a slow fever, which confined her to bed rather more than a 
fortnight. During the latter part of her illness, she was convey- 
ed to her father’s house; and, on the 23d of June, about eight 
days after she had been able to leave her bed, she resumed her 
situation with Mrs Foorr, who had, in the mean time, removed 
to Budden, in the parish of Craig, for the benefit of sea-bath- 
ing. She was observed, after her return, to do her work rather 
in a hurried manner; and, when sent upon any errand, to run 
or 
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