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XLIII. E:ghtec7ith Communication from Dr. Thsrutorif 

 tilat'we to Pneumatic Medicine. 



To Mr. Tillock. 



Dec. 15, 1804, 

 DEAR SIR, No J, Hin<!e-strect, Manchester- sqviare. 



JLx order to show the superior advantages of anv remedy, it 

 i> neccss;uT to stale cases in which the common means have 

 faikd under the ablest practitioners: and this will plead niy 

 excuse tbrgcnerallv naming the parties concerned; for, having 

 no other purpose in view but to spread a knowledge of p/zc/z/wa- 

 fic medicine, I have related usualiv both the names of the pa- 

 tients cured, and under what physician's care these were 

 previous to their applying to ine, but without ever intending 

 thereby tf) derogate aught from their well-known skill. The 

 following case is a very striking one in favour of pncumcitic 

 vicdicinc : 



Case of an Affectioyi of the Heart. 



Mr. Mortlock, aged 26, who keeps the large Colebrook 

 Dal'j China warehouse, No. 250, Oxford-street, when I first 

 attended him, had been iiine m'infh<; ill. ffis disease was " a 

 continual aiiawing, uneasy pam" in the chest ; I suppose 

 it to arise from the heart, his interrupted pulse appeared to 

 indicate this, so that life was insupportable: the pain was so 

 acute, upon using the slightest exercise, that he could not 

 get up a iliiiht of stairs without resting, and he could even 

 hardly walk across the room. So increased was this pain, 

 also, upon taking any food, that he was obliged to desist 

 from all animal food, wine, or beer, and lived wholly on 

 garden stufl', and drank water. His spirits partook of hi? 

 general inability; there was no intermission to his pain 

 nioht or dav. lie first was under the care of Mr. Cheva- 

 Iu;r, a surgeon distinguished for his treatise on gun-shot 

 wounds, which obtained for him a diamond ring from the 

 present emperor of Russia; who, after trying various reme- 

 dies, recomuiended a physician, Dr. Piteairn, who wascoJi- 

 snlted; and leeches to the chest, with blisters, and then 

 tonics, were used, but all to no maimer of purpose; he 

 bcfran to despair of ever being cured ; when the duchess of 

 E(>lton, and tiie countess of Lonsdale, urged him by all 

 means to ct)n--uit me. Lady Mount-Edgcunibe pressed him 



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