VOL. XLIV.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 241 



till 4 in the afternoon : but the clyster not being come from him, and complain- 

 ing of a pain in his stomach, he was ordered to be put in the bath from half an 

 hour past 11, till half an hour past 1. He found himself very well in the bath ; 

 his clyster there came from him, and he had a good stool. He was put to bed 

 again at a quarter past 1 : there he had another stool, and found himself very 

 well ; yet he was still very feverish. He slept from half past 4 till half past 6 ; 

 after which his fever was almost half gone. 



He was put into the bath again at half past 7 in the evening. He desired it 

 himself; partly on account of the ease which it had hitherto given him ; partly 

 because the situation of lying on his back, and sitting in the bath, was an agree- 

 able change from that of lying on his belly ; which he was obliged to do in his 

 bed. His pulse was very well in, the bath ; his look and eyes were more clear 

 than in the preceding bathings ; and indeed he neither had any pain in his belly, 

 at his stomach, in his breast, nor in his head; the wound only smarted now 

 and then; he could not bear being touched about it ; however his belly was 

 very flat, and he began to be hungry. He staid an hour and half in the bath, and 

 slept good part of the night and morning. 



May 20th, he did not wake till 8 o'clock : he had hardly any fever at all, and 

 he found himself much better than the day before. M. le Cat ordered another 

 clyster to be given him, on account of the benefit which he had received from it 

 the day before, and because he had not been at stool since. It made him sick at 

 stomach again, and did not come from him. 



He was put into the bath at Q o'clock. Part of his clyster came from him 

 there an hour and half after. At every bathing he was ordered a spoonful of cor- 

 dial at going in, and towards the middle of the bath a mess of broth, or 2 half 

 messes. He came out at the end of 2 hours. After this 4th bathing he found 

 himself almost without any fever; and was so well, that he teized them for some- 

 thing to eat. This determined M. le Cat to let the suppuration quietly fix itself; 

 which seemed already to begin at the wound of the teguments. He made water 

 this day once or twice through the penis. 



May 21st — In the morning, he was without a fever; and the distemper which 

 he complained of most, was hunger. M. le Cat then set out for Roiien. The 

 patient continued to grow better every day. M. le Cat returned the 10th day, to 

 prescribe him a less strict diet. The cicatrix of the bladder had formed itself on 

 the 20th. That day no urine at all passed any more through the wound of the 

 belly, a large bandage was laid over the wound, and he was sometimes put on 

 his back; especially after he began to make water through the penis. The wound 

 of the teguments was entirely cicatrised on the 40th day ; and he was so well, that 

 he came to see M. le Cat at Roiien on the 50th day. He was grown so fat, that 

 M. le Cat hardly knew him again. 



VOL. IX. I I 



