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cially in his right hand, he became sick, at stomach, and felt a trembling over 

 his whole body. He strove to get the better of this attack, and walked slowly 

 about for some time, but turned pale, faint, and fell down. He soon recovered 

 again, and still thinking to master the illness, drank 2 or 3 glasses of wine, 

 which he vomited up again. This began at noon, and at 6 in the evening I 

 found him in bed frighted and sweating. His pulse was then regular, but quick; 

 he was sick at stomach, with anxiety. I ordered him some saline draughts, and 

 plenty of thin warm liquors. In the night he slept but indifterently: his com- 

 plaints were not continual, but returned by fits, with stretchings of the limbs, 

 tremor, and starting of the tendons over the whole body; and when he began to 

 slumber, he was disturbed with frightful dreams of fire. 



27th, Early in the morning he observed many small purple spots on his hands. 

 I found them just like purple petechise: the most on his right arm, and percep 

 tible through the thick skin of the palm of that hand. There were also some 

 on the other arm and legs, and some of a deeper colour on the thighs, but very 

 few on the rest of the body. As his pulse was now grown quicker, I suspected 

 this to be a petechial fever: but there being no fevers of that kind then in town, 

 and besides, as I could not reconcile the other circumstances, I remained unde- 

 termined, and much perplexed by all these appearances. About 4 in the after- 

 noon he was again seized with great anxiety, and pricking burning pains in the 

 feet: the toes were extraordinarily red, and he had frequent stretchings. These 

 went almost off in a few hours. 28th, He was not so much troubled with the 

 frequent returns of his complaints: his pulse was quick, and the spots kept out 

 with itching. 29th, He was much the same as yesterday, only more cheerful in 

 the intervals, and the spots appeared fewer. He got frequently out of bed and 

 walked in the room. 30th, The attacks returned much seldomer, and he would 

 not keep in bed, but walked a great deal about the room, though his pulse was 

 still feverish. Many of the spots disappeared, most were become pale, and some 

 of a dun hue: those on the palm of the right hand were almost gone. He said 

 the spots were always fairer every time the fits returned, and then he felt prick- 

 ' ing pain with great heat, especially on the inside of his arms and legs, and in his 

 feet and toes. 



July 1st, I found him walking about the room, his pulse still quick. Last 

 night he had been pretty easy and free. The spots were pale and disappearing. 

 He took a laxative, which operated very well. 2d, Last night he got pretty 

 good rest, but this morning the prickling and tremorous sensation over the whole 

 body returned, but did not last long. He afterwards got up, walked about, and 

 looked after his business. The spots were mostly gone. He observed, that the 

 pricking pains in his arms and legs, and in a large spot on his back, which trou- 

 bled him in all his former accidents, came now only in the forenoons, and then 



