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right, but at very short intervals, and was obliged to lie at lengtk 

 in the diagonal of a coach. The hectic paroxysms were not in- 

 terrupted during the journey, but they were irregular and indis- 

 tinct, and the salutary effects of exercise, or rather gestation, 

 were impressed on the patient's mind. 



At Bristol he stayed a month, but reaped no benefit. The 

 weather was dry and the roads dusty; the water insipid and in- 

 ert. He attempted to ride on horseback on the downs, but was 

 not able to bear the fatigue for a distance of more than a hundred 

 yards. The necessity of frequent bleedings kept down his strength, 

 and his hectic paroxysms continued, though less severe. At 

 this time, suspecting that his cough was irritated by the west 

 winds bearing the vapour from the sea, he resolved to try the ef- 

 fects of an inland situation, and set off for Matlock in Derbyshire. 



During the journey he did not find the improvement he ex- 

 pected, but the nightly perspirations began to diminish; and 

 the extraordinary fatigue he experienced proceeded evidently 

 from his travelling in a post-chaise, where he could not indulge 

 in a recumbent position. The weather at Bristol had been hot, 

 and the earth arid and dusty. At Matlock, during the month of 

 June 1784, there was almost a perpetual drizzle, the soil was 

 wet, and the air moist and cold. Here, however, the patient's 

 cough began to abate, and at intervals he found an opportunity 

 of riding more or less on horseback. From two or three hundred 

 yards at a time, he got to ride a mile without stopping; and at 

 length he was able to sit on horseback during a ride from Mason's 

 Bath to the village of Matlock along the Derwent, and round on 

 the opposite banks, by the works of Mr. Arkwright, back to the 

 house whence he started, a distance of five miles. On dismounting, 

 however, he was seized with deliquium, and soon after the strength 

 he had recovered was lost by an attack of the haemorrhoids of the 

 most painful kind, and requiring much loss of blood from the 

 parts affected. 



& On reflection, it appeared that the only benefit received by 

 the patient was during motion, and continued motion could better 

 be obtained in the course of a journey than during his residence 

 at any particular place. This and other circumstances of 

 a private but painful nature, determined him to set out frbm 

 Matlock on a journey to Scotland. The weather was now much 

 improved, and during the journey he recruited his strength. 

 Though as yet he could not sit upright at rest for half an hour 

 together without a disposition to giddiness, dimness of sight, and 

 deliquium, he was able to sit upright under the motion of a post- 

 chaise during a journey of from 40 tg 70 miles daily, and his 



