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experience of this kind of malady. At a cer- 

 tain Inn at Hounflow, they ptit me into damp 

 Iheets. In about an hour, I awaked from a 

 moft frightful dream, in which was reprefented 

 to my troubled imagination, a fcene like the 

 fabled hell of poets and poetical writers. I 

 found myfelf in a burning fever, and inftantly 

 guefhng the caufe, I jumped out of bed, tore 

 away the (heets, and then wound myfelf up, 

 head and all, fo completely in the blankets, as 

 to leave only a fmall aperture to breathe from. 

 In that comfortable fituation I did not forget 

 the landlady and her maids, to whom I moft 

 pioufly wilhed a real eftate, in juft fuch a 

 country as I had lately viewed in imagination. 

 For feveral weeks I had a conftant chillinefs 

 upon me, and an extreme fufceptibility of 

 frelh cold : then a tumour in the arm-pit, with 

 a contra6lion of the mufcles of the breaft and 

 arm, the finews being corded to the elbow.. 

 Tried mercurial unftion, which induced in- 

 flammation without any benefit, an effeft I 

 have often obferved. New flannel, and cam- 

 phorated fpirits, made a cure in about three 

 weeks, and I thought myfelf extremely fortu- 

 nate to efcape fo cheaply. 



As to the curative intentions of this acute 

 rheumatifm in the horfe, they confift firft, in 

 embrocating the parts affe6ted, proper pre- 

 fcriptions for which will be found amongft the 



following 



