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my farther trials, and I can hardly think, any imposter could ever be insensible 

 of what I did. I remained sometime afterwards in the room, to see what effect 

 all together might have upon him; but he never gave any sign that he felt what 

 I had done, nor discovered any manner of uneasiness, by moving or stirring any 

 one part of his body, that I could observe. Having made these experiments, I 

 left him, being pretty well satisfied he was really asleep, and no sullen counter- 

 feit, as some people supposed. 



On my return to Bath, and relating what I had observed, many gentlemen 

 went out to see him, as I had done, to satisfy their curiosity, who found him 

 in the same condition I had left him the day before; only his nose was inflamed 

 and swelled very much, and his lips and the inside of his right nostril blistered 

 and scabby, with my spirit and hellebore, which I had plentifully dosed him 

 with the day before: his mother upon this for some time after would suff^er no- 

 body to come near him, for fear of more experiments on her son. About ten 

 days after I had been with him, Mr. Woolmer, an experienced apothecary at 

 Bath, called at the house, being near Tinsbury, went up into the room, finding 

 his pulse pretty high, as I had done, took out his lancet, let him blood about 

 14 ounces in the arm, tied his arm up again, nobody being in the house, and 

 left him as he found him; and he assured me he never made the least motion 

 in the world when he pricked him, nor all the while his arm was bleeding. 



Several other experiments were made by those that went to see him every day 

 from Bath, but all to no purpose. I saw him myself again the latter end of 

 September, and found him just in the same posture, lying in his bed, but re- 

 moved from the house where he was before, about a furlong or more; and they 

 told me, when they removed him, by accident, carrying him down stairs, which 

 were somewhat narrow, they struck his head against a stone, and gave him a 

 severe knock, which broke his head, but he never moved any more at U than a 

 dead man would. I found now his pulse was not quite so strong, nor had he 

 any sweats, as when I saw him before. I tried him again the second time, by 

 stopping his nose and mouth, but to no purpose; and a gentleman then with 

 me ran a large pin into his arm to the very bone, but he gave no manner of 

 token of his being sensible of any thing we did to him. In all this time they 

 assured me nobody had seen him either eat or drink, though they endeavoured 

 it all they could; but it always stood by him, and they observed, sometimes once 

 a day, sometimes once in two days, all was gone. It is further observable, he 

 never fouled his bed, but did his necessary occasions always in the pot. 



In this manner he lay till the 1 9th of November, when his mother hearing 

 him make a noise, ran immediately up to him, and found him eating; she 

 asked him how he did? He said, very well, thank God: she asked him again. 



