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er delirious ; pulfe 1 12. Takes only capillaire and water ; fleens 

 much. 



Twentieth day. Pulfe 100, fkin dry but lefs hot, liquid ilools 

 not fo frequent, he is emaciated to a great degree, he has eaten 

 half a tea-cup full of cuftard to day, drinks only capillaire and 

 water, has thrice taken two large fpoonfuls of deception of bark 

 with three drops of laudanum, r^fufes to have his legs bathed, 

 and will now take nothing but three drops of laudanum twice a 

 day. 



Twenty-fourth day. He has gradually taken more cuftard 

 every day, and began to attend to fome new playthings, and takes 

 wine fyllabub. 



Twenty-eighth day. He daily grows ftronger, eats eggs, 

 and bread and butter, and fleeps immediately after his food, can 

 creep on his hands and knees, but cannot (land erect. 



Thirty-fecond day. He cannot yet Hand alone fafely, but 

 feems hourly to improve in iirength of body, and activity of 

 mind. 



In this cafe the remote caufe of his fever could not be well 

 afcertained, as it might be from having his feet cold for many 

 fuccefiive days, or from contagion ; but the latter feems more 

 probable, becaufe his younger brother became ill of a fimilar fe- 

 ver about three weeks afterwards, and probably received the in- 

 fection from him. The difeafe commenced with great torpor 

 of the itomach, which was (hewn by his total averiion to folid 

 food, and perpetual ficknefs ; the watery ftools, which were 

 fometimes green, or of a darkifh yellow, were owing to the ac- 

 rimony, or acidity of -the contents of the bowels ; which as well 

 as the flatulency were occahoned by indigeition. This torpor 

 of the ilomach continued throughout the whole fever, and when 

 it ceafed, the fever ceafed along with it. 



The contagious material of this fever I fuppofe to have been 

 mixed with the faliva, and fwallo'wed, into the ilomach; that 

 it excited the veflels, which conflitute the ftomach, iiuo the 

 greateft irritative motion like arfenic ; which might not be per- 

 ceived, and yet might render that organ paralytic or inirrifable in a 

 moment of time ; as animals fometimcs die by one fingle exertion, 

 and confequent paralyfis, without a fecond druggie ; as by 

 lightning, or being (hot through the back part of the brain ; of 

 both which I have feen inftances. I had once an opportunity 

 of infpecHng two oxen, a few minutes after they were killed by 

 lightning under a crab-tree on moid ground in long grafs ; and 

 obferved, that they could not have ftruggled, as the grafs was 

 not prefTcd or bent near them ; I have alfo feen twohorfes fhot 

 through the cerebellum, who never once drew in their legs after 



they 



