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fiablc, to promote a further inveftigation of the 

 caufe, or very flender and improbable chance 

 of the mitigation or cure of difeafe. Almofl 

 hcpelefs of even time fufficient to adminifter 

 the medicine; I prepared a ball, containing 

 three grains of ^//7^//V tartar, and ten oi jalap y 

 forming the mafs, and pafiing it as before. I 

 alfo incorporated one ounce of the fplrit of 

 hartihorn (by frequent fliaking) with a quar- 

 ter of a pint of olive oil, and bathed all the 

 afFedled parts of the throat, fo as to leave the 

 hair underneath the neck plentifully charged 

 with the compolition. 



For rather more than half an hour, during 

 the folution oi the ball, and its confequent 

 effed: upon the ftomach, the fubjed: feemed 

 to undergo the moil painful fenfations ; agitat- 

 ing vibrations (or tremblings) of the whole 

 frame were very frequent; his eyes, nearly 

 clofed, feemed totally fixed, and the foam 

 iffuing from both fides of his mouth (as he lay 

 extended at his utmoft length), left not the 

 leafl: expectation of ever feeing him e'ue}! once 

 more upon his legs ; when fuddenly rifing 

 (after repeated efforts) a perfed: fram.e or 

 Skeleton, and reeling three or four feet from 



the 



