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beginning of April, he found that he 

 was heated by his single glass of 

 wine, though diluted largely with 

 water, and therefore discontinued it. 

 On the 13th he felt a soreness in his 

 throat, but he thought so lightly of 

 it, that he continued his profession- 

 al visits during that and the two fol- 

 lowing days. In the night of the 

 15th, his throat became worse, in 

 consequence of which he was copi- 

 ously bled at his own desire, and 

 had a large blister applied over his 

 throat; but theirritation occasioned 

 by the latter remedy was so distres- 

 sing to him, that it was removed be- 

 fore its intended effect was fully 

 produced. On the evening of the 

 I6th, Dr. Baillie called upon him, 

 without knowing that he was ill ; 

 and having heard the history of his 

 ailment, and an account of the re- 

 medies employed, he entirely ap- 

 proved of what had been done. At 

 this time Dr. Baillie observed no 

 symptom which indicated danger. — 

 The disease becoming more violent 

 in the course of the night, a consi- 

 derable number of leeches were ap- 

 plied to the throat early in the 

 morning. Dr. Baillie visited him at 

 11 o'clock in the forenoon. His 

 countenance was now sunk, his pulse 

 feeble and unequal, his breathing 

 laborious, and his voice almost lost, 

 from the swollen state of the parts 

 concerned in its formation. In this 

 state he wrote upon a piece of pa- 

 per, that he conceived his windpipe 

 to be the principal seat of the dis- 

 ease, and that this was the croup.— 

 Mr. Home was also present ; and it 

 was agreed that an attempt should 

 be made to give relief by wounding 

 the tonsils. This was accordingly 

 done : some blood issued, but no- 

 thing purulent. Both the patient, 

 however, and those about him, con" 



ceived that he had derived benefit 

 from the operation. Dr. Baillie 

 saw him again between four and five 

 o'clock in theafternoon,and thought 

 his situation much improved ; for 

 the pulse was now equal and more 

 firm, and his general appearance in- 

 dicated less debility and distress. — 

 Under this persuasion he left him, 

 having previously agreed to return 

 at ten in the evening, when he was 

 to meet in consultation Mr. Home, 

 and another Physician, who had 

 long time been intimate with his 

 patient. A little before Dr. Baillie 

 had paid the visit just mentioned, a 

 slight drowsiness had come on, and 

 this symptom rather increased after 

 his departure. But nothing more 

 remarkable occurred till near eight 

 o'clock, when the patient'sbreathing 

 became suddenly more difficult.— 

 About 20 minutes after this he died. 

 The body was examined the second 

 day after his death by Mr. Home, 

 Dr. Baillie, and Dr. Wells. The 

 throat and tongue were found much 

 inflamed and swollen. The inner 

 membrane of the windpipe was also 

 found inflamed, but altogether free 

 from that praeternatual coating 

 which occurs in croup. The heart 

 and lungs were entirely sound; but 

 the great artery, close to its origin, 

 was somewhat diseased; sufficiently, 

 perhaps, to occasion in a person 

 of an irritable frame an increased 

 force in the pulsation of the heart, 

 though apparently not in such a de- 

 gree as to affect the duration of life. 

 On the 25th, his corpse was deposit- 

 ed in a vault in the church of St. 

 Bartholomew,nearSmithfield,which 

 contained the remains of his father 

 and uncle. Dr. D. Pitcairn had 

 five brothers ; one of them died 

 young ; three others, all of them of- 

 ficers in his Majesty's service, died 



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