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symptoms still increase^) ; and before Mr. B. could get to hiin, things were come 

 to the extremity above described. Having nothing at hand but a tea spoonful 

 or two of spirit of hartshorn, he forced open his teeth with the handle of a 

 spoon, and as his head was reclined, poured the spirit into his mouth, vvhich a 

 little roused him, and first set him a coughing, and next a vomiting. Mr. B. 

 took the advantage of the little sense that was returned, and continued plying 

 him with carduus-tea, till he had vomited several limes more, but could not 

 hinder his swooning often between the times of retching, though he gave him 

 after each 40 or 50 drops of sal volatile et tinctur. croc. aa. p. ae. in a glass of 

 wine. The patient at length began to find a working downwards, as he after- 

 wards expressed liimself, which was followed by a stool ; after vvhich he vomited 

 two or three times more, and then said his head was so heavy, and his strength 

 and spirits so exhausted, though his stomach and bowels were much easier, that 

 he must needs lie down : his pulse was tlien a little returned, tiiough very much 

 interrupted and irregular, sometimes beating two or three strokes very quick, 

 together, and then making a stop of as long or a longer time than the preceding 

 strokes altogether took up. Having observed that what he had last vomited 

 was little more than the pure carduus-tea, Mr. B. then gave him a draught made 

 of aq. epidein. ther. androm. conf. alkerm. &c. and gave orders to make him 

 some sack-whey to drink between whiles, sometimes alone, and in case of great 

 faintness, wiih some of the above-named drops. It being near 1 o'clock, Mr. 

 B. left him, and calling to see hiin next morning, found him much better. He 

 had lain awake, though still, an hour or two after he left him, but being very 

 cold and chilly, had a great deal of covering laid on him, and then found a 

 kindly warmth come over his limbs, which was succeeded by a moderate sweat, 

 and then a quiet sleep of 4 or 5 hours, from which he waked very much re- 

 freshed. Mr. B. could see none of the sallad. 



The alterations the patient found in himself after eating it, and how they 

 came on, were thus: the first symptom was a sensation of a tingling heat, 

 which not only affected his tongue, but his jaws, so that the teeth seemed 

 loose; and his cheeks were so much irritated, that the people about him, nay 

 even his looking-glass, could scarcely persuade him but that his face was swelled 

 to twice its proper size. This tingling sensation spread itself farther and far- 

 ther, till it had seized his whole body, especially the extremities; he had an 

 unsteadiness in the joints, especially of the knees and ancles; with twitchings 

 on the tendons, so that he could scarcely walk across the room ; and he thought 

 that in all his limbs he felt a sensible stop or interruption in the circulation of 

 his blood; and that from the wrists to the fingers ends, and from the ancles to 

 the toes, there was no circulation at all ; but he had no sickness or disposition 

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