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anxiety and impatience of the employer, and 

 the judgment and reputation of the employ- 

 ed : the former repeately dooming the pa- 

 tient to the king's kennel at Ascot, the lat- 

 ter as constantly imploring her respite ; 

 which having with much difficulty finally 

 obtained, I immediately formed my medical 

 arrangement, and proceeded without varia- 

 tion or interruption in the following way. 

 Having two days before begun a course of 

 my (advertised) alterative powders, in the 

 morning and evening feeds of corn, (first 

 sprinkled with water to insure their adhe- 

 sion and consumption,) I now added an 

 ounce of Peruvian bark in powder to be 

 given twice every day in three quarters of 

 a pint of thin gruel, repeating the ounce of 

 nitre in the water, night and morning, with- 

 out intermission. 



1 adopted this plan upon a perfect confi- 

 dence that such system would eftect all that 

 could be expected from medicines intcrnalli) ; 

 then directing my attention to the compli- 

 cated wounds and sinuses (that in fact bore 

 a desperate aspect), my great hope and ex- 

 pectation consisting in correcting the morbid 



