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teenth year. After her first confinement with puer- 

 peral fever, in 1821 , she lingered fifteen months. 

 The existence of gall-stones being suspected , she 

 was sent to Cheltenham, whose saline waters brought 

 on a miscarriage (at Carlsbad we never allow pregnant 

 women to drink), followed by an excessive weakness, 

 which yielded to proper regimen and the sea -side. 

 In 1823 , she was happily delivered of a third child, 

 which she lost, ten months old, whilst again preg- 

 nant of another, still alive and healthy. Her husband 

 having been suddenly called to sea, she lived in con- 

 tinual anxiety, and was seized with a fever, that 

 alarmed her physician, because the delivery was 

 approaching, which however was easy and regular, 

 but followed by an inflammation of the bowels and 

 liver. She was twice bled, twelve ounces each time, 

 and leeches were applied to the temples, on account 

 of violent head- ach. Some milk is said to have been 

 seen swimming in the blood drawn from her , and 

 since that time she always lingered. A second in- 

 flammation of the liver was also subdued by copious 

 blood-letting. She tried again successfully the sea- 

 side. Pains in the liver and the head, with a violent 

 fever, returned, in 1826 5 and, after a convalescence 

 of two months, she had an inflammation of the lungs, 

 for which, in less than twenty -four hours, she was 

 twice bled ad deliquium animi, to the enormous quan- 

 tity of twenty -two and of eighteen ounces, beside 

 innumerable leeches, blisters, etc. In October 1825, 

 her husband returned from the West- Indies to Eng- 



