49° Dr. Penhal on the EffeSfs of Famine ^ t^c. 



fyftem ? Thus the Negro, mentioned by Di% 

 Chalmers, who was gibbeted at Charleftown, 

 in March 1779, and had nothing given him 

 afterwards, regularly voided every morning, 

 till he died, a large quantity of urine. * The: 

 fpring feafon, in South Carolina, is attended 

 •with great nodlurnal dews, which being imbibed 

 by the pores of the flvin, furnifhed the poor 

 Negro with a fuperabundance of fluids in the 

 night, and a fufficiency to fupport perfpiratiorj 

 in the day. I vifited, not long fince, in con- 

 iukation with her kinfman Dr. Eafon, an elderly 

 lady, who laboured under a very fevere lientery. 

 Her evacuations, as often happens both in this 

 difeafe and in" the diabetes, far exceeded in quan- 

 tity, the liquids which (he fwal lowed, or whaj; 

 could be afcribcd to the diflblucion of her folids. 

 During five or fix days before her death, fhe 

 took no aliment whatever, and only occafionally 

 moifiened her Qioutih, by putting her finger^ 

 into it, after they had been dipped in wacer. 

 Yet' (he difchargetl a pint of urine once in twenty- 

 four hours. I fim inclined to conjefture, that 

 the moifiure of the coal-pit was favourable to 

 Travis; but how long he might have fubfifted 

 under fuch circqmftances, it is not pofilble to 

 determine. It may however be prefumed, that 

 his death was rather accelerated |:han retarded, 



* Chalmers on Fevers, p. ?. 



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