38 Account of the Last Illness 



by the day following. Soon after being bled, he took 

 half a dram of castor-oil. 



In the afternoon, when I saw him, he thought himself ■■ 

 rather better, having discharged some faeces, which, he 

 told me, were extremely offensive, and having made wa- 

 ter. Upon inquiring whether he had been sensible of 

 any enlargement of his bladder, I was ans\>'ered in the 

 negative, and that his obstruction in this evacuation was 

 not complete, for he had frequently made a spoonful of 

 water, and could, at any time, discharge a small quantity; 

 which, as I mentioned to him, looked as if his want of a 

 copious evacuation was owing rather to a want of secre- 

 tion than to an obstruction in the neck of the bladder. 

 He drank, during this day, plentifully of water-gruel, 

 A\ith a little juice of orange in it. 



On Tuesday morning, I found that he had a very 

 restless night. He told me, that he had been very hot, 

 feverish, and very thirsty. He complained of a pain in 

 his head. His face was remaikably florid, and he had 

 spit blood in the night. He seemed much oppressed, 

 and fetched his breath, every now and then, with a moan. 

 His skin was very hot, and his pulse seemed to indicate 

 a second bleeding, which he desired me to perform ; but 

 hearing that he had sent for Sir J. Pringlc, who had pro- 

 mised to visit him that morning, I desired he would let 

 me defer the operation till after his visit, and that I would 

 return by 12 o'clock, to bleed him, if Sir John approved 

 of it. 



