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eating them, he fell into the moft dreadful 

 ravings. Once in a quarter of an hour his 

 fenfes would return for a moment ; but he 

 relapfed immediately, and every time with 

 more violence. During the intervals of 

 reafon, his breathing was difficult, and he 

 complained of a dreadful tightnefs crofs his 

 breaft. Towards morning the ravings went 

 off, but he became foolifh. He was faint, 

 breathed with difficulty, and flared and flab- 

 bered, anfwering foreign to queftions, and 

 feemed a perfed idiot. All this time he was 

 affeded with a moft violent ftrangury ; but 

 by degrees this went off, and he recovered 

 without the help of medicines. Before the 

 country apothecary could be had, he was 

 growing better -, and he not knowing what 

 to advife, left the family to their own ma- 

 nagement. The children both died in the 

 courfe of the night. The father, when per- 

 fedly recovered, arid queftioned about the 

 nature of the cafe, anfwered that he had 

 been in the condition of one very drunk, 

 but faw and underftood all that was doing, 

 even when he anfwered in the wildeft man- 

 ner. 



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