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ticular ci ream fiances of the patient : Or, 

 if the patient's body has been longcoflive, 

 and the excrements hardened, emollienc 

 glyflers ijiay be ufed. Such as are ple- 

 thoric, 



fpoonful every day ; then (lopped a week, and returned 

 again. In this manner it went on about four months : 

 After which, beginning to fear the confequence might 

 be fatal, as many of her neareft relations had been car 

 ried ofF by confumptions of the lungs, (he applied to 

 Mr Johnfton fui geon-apothecary in Moffat, who, find- 

 ing the fpitting of blood increafing, and her pulfe pret- 

 ty full and frequent, ordered her to be blooded, to take 

 the deco3iim tamarindontm of the Fdinburgh Difpenfa- 

 tory, and to ftvallow four of the following pills thrice 

 a-day. R. Extra^. cort Peruvian, drach. ii. halfam. 

 Peruvian, fcrup. i. puh, cort. Peruvian, q. f. ut ./. 

 viajfa, ey. cujus fingut. drachm. fornieniiirfil.x\\. The 

 blooding and decotlion were repeated as often as they 

 feemed neceflary ; and the pills were continued ten weeks 

 ■without fuccefs : For, foon after Oi.e left off ufing them, 

 fhe bean to cough up purulent matter with blood. 

 Whenever the fjjitting diminiflied, her breathing became 

 verydi'flicult ; and the pain of her breaft increafed, with 

 a particular forenefs all along the breaft-bone when Oie 

 coughed. 



She drank goat's and ewe's whey, from the beginning 

 of June, to the end of Auguft, without any fenfible be- 

 refit ; for /he continued (til! to fpit blood and matter : 

 Soon after this, fhe was attacked with fndden flufhes of 



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