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I returned according to promise, and was told, that 

 Sir John had desired him to repeat his castor-oil, but 

 had advised him not to be bled, for his pulse did not 

 seem to require it. 



Upon examining his pulse at this time, I M'as surprised 

 to find it so much altered in so short a time, for it was 

 now remarkable soft. I saw him again at 5 o'clock, and 

 found him much oppressed. He moaned frequently ; said 

 that his stomach loathed every sort of watery liquor ; had 

 a violent pain in his head. He was veiy low spirited, and 

 told me he should not be surprised, if he should die in 

 the night. He took a vomit of emetic tartar, mixed with 

 soluble tartar, at 7 o'clock. At 8 o'clock in the even- 

 hig, when I visited him, he thought himself much re- 

 lieved by it, though, on looking at the vessel, there was 

 nothing discharged from his stomach, except a very little 

 mucus. He told me, that the emetic tartar had begun 

 to purge him. 



On Wednesday morning, I found him very low, and 

 spitting constantly. He told me, his saliva was sweet, 

 and that he supposed his purging owing to his swallow- 

 ing it in his sleep, for, when he spat out his saliva, 

 seemed to purge less. The pain in his abdomen, he 

 said, seemed not so low down as it was, but the pain in 

 his head was the most severe and intolerable. He took, 

 during this day, some chalk julep, with laudanum, after 

 ever}^ stool. In the evening he told me, he was afraid 

 to go to sleep, lest he should swallow his saliva. 



