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injection was administered, which operated on the lower intestines but all without 

 any perceptible advantage, the respiration becoming still more difficult and dis 

 tressing. 



Upon the arrival of the first of the consulting physicians, it was agreed, as there 

 were yet no signs of accumulation in the bronchial vessels of the lungs, to try the 

 result of another bleeding, when about thirty-two ounces of blood were drawn, 

 without the smallest apparent alleviation of the disease. Vapours of vinegar and 

 water were frequently inhaled; ten grains of calomel were given, succeeded by 

 repeated doses of emetic tartar, amounting in all to five or six grains, with no other 

 effect than a copious discharge from the bowels. The powers of life seemed now 

 manifestly yielding to the force of the disorder. Blisters were applied to the 

 extremities, together with a cataplasm of bran and vinegar to the throat. 

 Speaking, which was painful from the beginning, now became almost impracticable; 

 respiration grew more and more contracted and imperfect, till half after eleven 

 o clock on Saturday night, retaining the full possession of his intellect, when he 

 expired without a struggle. 



He was fully impressed at the beginning of his complaint, as well as through 

 every succeeding stage of it, that its conclusion would be mortal; submitting to the 

 several exertions made for his recovery rather as a duty, than from any expectation 

 of their efficacy. He considered the operations of death upon his system as coeval 

 with the disease; and several hours before his decease, after repeated efforts to be 

 understood, succeeded in expressing a desire that he might be permitted to die 

 without interruption. 



