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that he only fwallo-wedfcrup. viii. through 

 the courfe of the other j by which it would , 

 appear, that that medicine had, by no 

 ineanSy become familiar to him. I pre- 

 pared your pills precifely as diredled in 

 iVIedical Eflays vol. i. Art. vi ; only iii- 

 ilead of calomel, I took the fame quantity 

 of mere, chile, and indeed of the fame kind 

 with which I had raifed the lad falivati- 

 oh: And, having divided *the mafs, as 

 there is alfo dire(5led, 1 ordered him to 

 take three pills morning and evening with 

 a draught deco^, llgnor. after each dofc, 

 and to drink plentifully of the fame 

 through the day. This courfe, with a 

 due regimen, he obferved regularly for a 

 month : But, as he was quite wearied witli 

 the tedious courfe he had formerly un- 

 dergone, and, as he afterwards told me, 

 was refolved his difeafe flioutd terminate 

 foon, either in death or recovery,- he fre- 

 quently begged I would increafe the dofe 

 of pills. Upon which I allowed him to 

 take four, morning and evening, but 

 told him I durft venture no further ; and 



withal 



