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\vi\s covered with a villous matter of" a vellowifh colour the 

 two firft days, but it was afterwards brown till the 6th. 



Her breathing was fliort, opprelfive, and accompanied 

 with a fetid fmell. The pulfe, which was weak, beat from 

 90 to 94 in a minute. The heat was not examined by 

 a thermometer. The urine was red and fetid, without 

 fediment. The patient had a violent third:, and drank a 

 great deal of whey with lemon juice. 



On the fecond day of the fever flie was affecled with 

 delirium, coma, reitlefihefs, and a dread of death. On 

 the third all thefe fymptoms increafed. On the fourth 

 there was an involuntary difcharge of urine, 8cc. On 

 the fifth there came on a diarrhoea of a bilious and pu- 

 trid matter ; and the delirium being then continual, flie fuf- 

 fered every thing to efcape her. On the fixth the fymptoms 

 were no better. On the feventh the tonfils were white, and 

 this thickened fecretion, at length, covered all the parts of 

 the mouth ; deglutition became difficult, there was fubfultus 

 tendinum, and the patient with her trembling fingers picked 

 the blankets. On the eighth all the fymptoms were as be- 

 fore, with vibices half an inch in diameter, which rofe in 

 fmall blifters, and appeared on the breaft, the hands, and 

 pther parts of the body. On the ninth thefe blifters dif- 

 charged blood, for the moll part thin and corrupted, the 

 ground of which was in fome a brown purple, and in othert 

 red. The cheeks were alfo of a brown purple colour, the 

 eyes hollow, and the pupils much dilated. At laft a cold 

 fweat broke out on the face, the hands and feet; the mouth 

 quivered, and the cheeks, lips, and all the members of the 

 body were {lightly convulied. 



All thefe bad fymptoms gave reafon to be apprehenfive 

 for the life of the patient; but the pulfe continuing regu- 

 lar gave me fome hope. .While the patient was in this 

 condition, being called in to confult with the phyfician who 

 had treated the cafe according to the rules of the art, I ad- 

 •ifed the application of carbonic acid gas by the re&um, to- 

 gether 



