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MEDICAL 



PAPERS. 



parts were well rubbed after the ufe of it, with a llnl 



ment, 



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loth. The powders were repeated with y of opium to 

 be given every two hours as ufuaL 



A particular bath likewife, confiding of emollient and 

 difcutient herbs, was direded for the mufcles of his jaws 

 and neck, which were moft feverely convulfed; indeed the 

 maffcter mufcles were to the touch like wood. 



I xth. The patient was no better: I began to defpair of 

 him: Emollient clyfters were thrown up morning and 

 evening, he being very coftive, as well from the ufe of 

 the opium, as from the efFeds of the difeafe. His mind 

 was clear and undifturbed, he had no ileep, nor even 

 drowfmefs; nor did there appear any of the ufnal efFeds 

 of opium given in much fmaller quantities. However I 

 knew that nothing but opium could anfwer our purpofe, 

 and though I had gone as great lengths with it as any one 

 in thefe parts would venture, yet I not only perfifted in its 



lefs nitre and camphor. 



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1 2th. Having taken the laft fix powders, he thought his 

 fpafrns recurred lefs frequently. Yet there was no relax- 

 ation of the mufcles of the jaws, nor any other favourable 



alteration. His clyflers were repeated, the baths and lini- 

 ment continued, and his powders were again ordered. 



13^/7. Every thing continued the fame. He had no 

 fleep, nor any relaxation of the mufcles. His difcharges 

 by the clyfters were hard dry fcybals; his mind was ftill 

 calm, and not a fundion of it impaired, or in the leaft 

 altered. Tie was wakeful in the day as ufual, and in the 

 evening- had an inclination to reft, but continued to be 

 difturbed by thefe dreadful fpafms. 



Still between hopes and defpair T ordered fix powders 



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of 



which was twenty grains of 



pure folid opium in each dofe, to be given every three 

 liours. i^th. 



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