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what raised, and he continued easy till about 1 1 o'clock, when the burning pains 

 returned, shooting from place to place ; but always so superficial, that he could 

 not distinguish whether it was in or under the skin. Rubbing the part affected 

 with the hand gave ease ; but when the sweating went off, and the burnings and 

 shootings became insufferable. Dr. M. always put him into a bath of hot water, 

 with some wood ashes, kept ready in the room ; which gave him great relief. That 

 afternoon he felt violent burning pain in his great toes, and sometimes in his 

 left hand, with shootings up to the shoulder. Once he cried out, in great pain, 

 that his shoulder was burst ; for he felt something fly out with a sort of explo- 

 sion ; but examining the part Dr. M. found nothing particular. He observed, 

 when the flaky burnings began, they were as if they kindled from a point, and 

 flashed like lightning, as he termed it. He was very often tormented with such 

 pains on the pit of the stomach ; and that evening had shootings through the 

 back, with a pain in the belly. He complained of a strong sulphureous smell, 

 which he said was like to suffocate him ; though his breathing seemed easy, and 

 his lungs no way affected. In the night he was seized with great pain about the 

 heart, and cried out violently that his heart was on fire : but after taking a dose 

 of nervous medicines, and being put into the bath, he was soon freed from this, 

 and passed the rest of the night tolerably well. At the time of such violent 

 attacks the pulse continued regular, but still slower and softer than usual. 



Tuesday, he complained most of his toes, and now and then burning pains 

 in the forehead. Wednesday, the whole day it continued most in the toes of the 

 left foot ; but in the evening the pain on the stomach returned, which lanced to 

 the left side, with dartings inwardly. He became so uneasy and restless, that 

 Dr. M. was obliged to add some opium to the other medicines ; which answered 

 very well. Thursday, the pains kept most in the toes of the left foot. Friday, 

 nothing particular, except his feeling, with sharp pain, a spark (as he called it) fly 

 out of his right cheek, in the same way, he said, as that which burst on his 

 shoulder, but much less. He perceived no pain in that part before ; nor any 

 thing after, besides a soreness, which lasted for some days. Hitherto he had 

 been kept in a continual sweat : his appetite was greater than his allowance ; his 

 digestion good, and his rest indifferent. From this time he was not attacked 

 by any violent symptoms ; and could be quiet, though he did not sweat. On 

 Sunday he began to get out of bed ; but was often seized with glowing pains, 

 suddenly affecting different parts of the body ; which seldom continued an hour 

 in one part, but shifted from place to place : these he was troubled with, in a less 

 degree, even long after he went abroad. 



By care and watchfulness the violence of the symptoms were kept under ; 

 and by the use of antidotes. for poisons of the nature of what he received this 



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