250 ACCOUNT OF MARGARET LYALL, WHO CONTINUED 



cessarily minute, or even altogether unimportant ; but, in de- 

 tailing so remarkable a case, I did not think myself qualified or 

 entitled to select according to my own judgment ; and consi- 

 dered it to be my business, as a reporter, merely to relate, as 

 clearly and correctly as possible, whatever was observable in the 

 situation of the patient. I have noted, also, her previous em- 

 ployment, the places where she resided, and some of the indi- 

 viduals who attended to her case, partly to render the account 

 more intelligible, and partly to enable others to make farther 

 inquiries for themselves. I may mention farther, in case you 

 may not be aware of the circumstance, that there is a similar 

 case recorded in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Lon- 

 don for 1705, vol. xxiv. p. 2177. 



Yours, &c. 

 To Dr Brewster. Jas. Brewster. 



Margaret Lyall, a young woman, about twenty-one years 

 of age, daughter of John Lyall, shoemaker in the parish of 

 Marytown, served during the winter half-year preceding 

 Whitsunday 1815, in the family of Peter Arkley, Esq. of 

 Dunninald, in the parish of Craig. At the last mentioned 

 term, she went as servant to the Reverend Mr Foote of Lo- 

 gie ; but, in a few days after entering her place, was seized with 

 a slow fever, which confined her to bed rather more than a 

 fortnight. During the latter part of her illness, she was convey- 

 ed to her father's house ; and, on the 23d of June, about eight 

 days after she had been able to leave her bed, she resumed her 

 situation with Mrs Foote, who had, in the mean time, removed 

 to Budden, in the parish of Craig, for the benefit of sea-bath- 

 ing. She was observed, after her return, to do her work rather 

 in a hurried manner ; and, when sent upon any errand, to run 



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