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sharp pain it had occasioned in passing through the wound. Mr. N.'s hopes of 

 his recovery now began to fail him ; liowever he resolved to persevere, and act as 

 though he was sure of success. After dressing, he was ordered to take the ano- 

 dyne draught, and to begin again the manna draughts with oil early in the 

 morning. 



29th. Before Mr. N. came to visit him, he had had another motion; and the 

 nurse informed him, that his night had been better than any of the preceding 

 ones, he having slept, at different times, full 3 hours. His pulse was stronger, but 

 remitting, and his skin inclining to perspire. The tongue was foul, and the 

 water clear and pretty high coloured. In the stool which had come oft' this 

 morning Mr. N. did not find any blood, or in any he had afterwards during the 

 time of his confinement. The wound had discharged a great deal, and was 

 more inflamed; and the edges looked thick and ill-natured, and were ready to 

 separate from each other. The tension of the belly still kept up, though he 

 did not perceive that it had at all increased. The opening draughts were conti- 

 nued, once in 6 hours only, through the course of this day, which kept him 

 sufficiently open; and the anodyne was repeated at 10 o'clock this night. 



30th. This morning things wore but a melancholy aspect. His night had 

 been restless, and his head confused, and he talked sometimes incoherently; his 

 pulse was increased, though exceedingly irregular, and the skin (elt hot and dry; 

 he was thirsty, and complained of a great tightness, particularly about the region 

 of the stomach; his countenance was hollow, the eyes being sunk, with a dead- 

 ness in them not easily to be expressed. The wound had discharged very much, 

 and it was extremely oftensive. The edges of it were inverted, much swollen, 

 and separated from each other considerably more than the preceding day. He 

 likewise complained of a sharp, burning pain, deep in the wound, but could not 

 express precisely where. As soon as the wound was dressed, the anodyne clyster 

 was administered; and Mr. N. desired he might have a small basin of the infu- 

 sion of mint, v/ith a knob of fine sugar, got ready for him as soon as possible, 

 and that he would sip it down as warm as he could. At 2 o'clock this afternoon 

 he was seized suddenly with a most violent vomiting, and brought up a large 

 quantity of bile. This Mr. N. the more wondered at, as he had never made the 

 least complaint of sickness, or nausea, from the time of his accident: for every 

 thing he had taken had sat easy and well on his stomach. What he had brought 

 up was of so dark a colour, that he imagined it was mixed with blood; but, on a 

 careful examination of it, found he was mistaken. When the vomiting was over, 

 the nurse gave him a little more of the mint infusion; and soon after he fell into 

 a sound sleep, which continued more than an hour. In tlie evening he was hot 

 and uneasy, complaining of thirst, and a pain in his head; his pulse was in- 

 creased, and his skin felt dry. The wound had made a prodigious discharge. 



