554 Eleventh CommunleatioR from Dr. Thornton. 



they consist are rather notations than narratives. Nor 

 do I apprehend any evidence from the ruins of Perscpolis, 

 or the Persepohtan monument, I send herewith*, will mi- 

 litate in the least against this conjecture. The figures Dr. 

 Hager has given from the cylinders, appear to indicate 

 festivals correspondina; with the astronomical notices that 

 accompany them ; and the goat of the second mav have a 

 relative import with that in this present from M. Millin. 



XLIII. Eleventh Commumcalion from Dr. Thornton. 

 To Mr. Tilloch. 



No. I, Htiule-srreet, Manchester-square, 

 SIR, Dtcemberio, 1803. 



Jln the last letter that I had the honour of addressing to the 

 philosophic world, through the medium of your excellent 

 Magazine, I mentioned among my observations the con- 

 sideration of the balance of principles as afiecting health, 

 and even the very existence of the animal ceconomv. The 

 following cases will further tend to illustrate this opinion : 



Case of Mrs. Chapman. 

 Mrs. Chapman, aet. 65, a nurse employed in the first 

 families, being upon a visit to the housekeeper, upon her 

 coming to town, at the dowager ladv Williams Wynne, was 

 ordered by me thirty drops of laudanum, and an aperient 

 draught in the morning, to prevent the constipating effects 

 of laudanum. She took the same, and passed a verv com- 

 fortable night. In the morning the maid servant came to 

 give her the morning draught ; but, by mistake, took up 

 the bottle containing the laudanum, which she poured out, 

 and ihc whole was drunk down, amounting to near two 

 ounces. Some little time elapsed before the mistake was 

 discovered, and I was imniediately sent for. I ordered an 

 tmetic, and lemonade to be drunk plentifully, and the pa- 

 tient to be got up, and to be continually roused to take the 

 acid drink. By this means there was only a sensation of 

 groat drowsiness produced bv the opium, and the patient 

 being at length allowed to sleep, this went off', and she was 

 £:> well as ever in the evening. 



' An engraviptr for«ari!ed to Mr. Hcniev hy M. Millin, siipcrin- 

 tc'.idaut of the NLitioiial Museum atP^iis. it exhibits tht f:icc of the 

 celcbratiid Pcrscpolicrfn menumcnt brought lately to Franc* by M. Mi- 



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