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verification of that excellent motto and excite* 

 ment to induftry, " Perfevere a?id conquer.'* 

 The fubjed: continued to become much lefs dif-^ 

 quiet, not a fymptom but appeared lefs violent, 

 and he even dofed without extreme pain. In 

 the middle of the night I repeated the glyfter, 

 which was then retained a confiderable time, 

 and again difcharged, as thrown up without 

 the leaft appearance of, or admixture with, 

 excrement. 



After this retention and evacuation of the 

 injection, he tottered, unfupported, to his bed, 

 and lay down evidently better. In lefs than 

 an hour after this effort and emotion, he took, 

 with fome degree of eagernefs, the bread and 

 milk that had been prepared (previoully 

 warmed) ; about eight in the morning I 

 renewed my injection, which, after being 

 retained for at leaft ten minutes, came away 

 with a large portion of difcokiired crudities^ as 

 if brought from the interftices of the inteftines 

 by the repeated Vv^afhings of the injedion.— » 

 This produced additional and very ftriking 

 advantages : he was feemingly relieved in all 

 refpedls, the ftridture of the mufcles upon the 

 inteftines, and the contradion of the loins, 



were 



