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In this predicament followed a fecond ftrug- 

 gle for fuperiority between the natural anxiety 

 and impatience of the employer, and the judg- 

 ment and reputation of the employed ^ the 

 former repeatedly dooming the patient to the 

 king's kennel at Afcot, the latter as conftantly 

 imploring ker refpite ; which having with much 

 difficulty finally obtained, I immediately form- 

 ed my medical arrangement, and proceeded 

 without variation or interruption in the fol- 

 lowing way. — Having two days before begun 

 a courfe of my (advertifed) alterative powders, 

 in the morning and evening feeds of corn, 

 (firft fprinkled' with water to infure their ad- 

 hefion and ccnfumption), 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, without 

 intermiffion. 



I adopted this plan, upon a perfecl confi- 

 dence that fuch fylliem would eifedl all that 

 could be expeded from medicines internally ; 

 then direding my attention to the complicated 

 wounds and fmufes (that in fad bore a defpe- 

 rate afped;), my great hope and expedation 



conlifted 



