Account of the Last Illness of Dr. Stark. 37 



V. Account of the Last Illness of the ingenious Doctor 

 William Stark f of London); with a Statement of the 

 Appearances on the Dissection of his Body. From 

 an original MS. , by the late Mr. WilliamHewson, 

 Surgeon and Anatomist^ in London. Communicated 

 to the Editor, by Dr. TifOMAS Hewson, of Phi- 

 ladelphia. 



ON Monday morning, February 8, he sent to 

 desire me to come and bleed him. I went to him at 9 

 o'clock, and found him just going to take a glyster. 

 He told me, he had a pain at the lower part of his abdo- 

 men, and had not made water in any quantity, nor had a 

 stool, for three or four days. This he attributed to a 

 change of his diet, from a pudding made of honey and 

 flour, to cheese ; which I understood he had eaten to the 

 quantity of three or four pounds, without having had any 

 evacuation since he began it ; and this, he told me, was 

 the opposite effect to what the honey had, for, whilst 

 living on that, he had made more urine than he had 

 drunk water. 



Agreeable to his desire, I took away nine ounces of 

 blood, which was received into four cups, the two first 

 of which were afterwards found to have an inflammatory 

 crust. This blood being examined at five o'clock in 

 the afternoon, was found to have parted with very little 

 scrum, which I attributed to its having stood in a cool 

 place, as the coagulum felt very firm, and one cup being- 

 removed into a warmer room, had more scrum separated 



