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days, when very confiderable diforders came on. She Vva> 

 attacked with a (hivering, or cold fit, attended with the feel 

 of dying, and followed with cold fvveats. It being fuppofed 

 file was dying, brandy was tlirown in, which foon brought 

 on a warmth, and fhe was relieved. The (its came on fe- 

 t^aently for feveraldays, which were alfo relieved by brandy; 

 and flie took, in one of the moft violent, half a pint of bran- 

 dy. While under thefe affeaions, flie had the bark as a 

 ftrengthener; the mufk occafionally, as a fedative, in pretty 

 large quantities; camphorated jalap frequently, as an anti- 

 fpafmodic 5 and, towards the laft, flie took the valerian iu 

 large quantities : but whatever effeas thefe might have in 

 leffening the difeafe, on the whole they were certainly not 

 equal to it without the brandy." 



■ John Hunter judicioufly adds : « A queflion naturally 

 occur:; : Would the brandy alone, if it had been continued as 

 a medicine, have cured her without the aid of the other me- 

 dicmes ? The other medicines, I think, certainly could not 

 have done it ; nor do I believe that the brandy could have 

 been continued in fuch quantity as to have prevented their 

 returns : if fo, then the two modes were happily ujiited, the 

 one gradually to prevent, the other to remove immediateljr 

 the fits vvhen thcv came on." 



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