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tincture, of which he took a table-fpoonful every 

 two hours in a cup full of cold water : he drank 

 fometimes a little of the tincture of rofes, but 

 his common liquors were red wine and water, or 

 rice water and brandy acidulated with elixir of 

 vitriol : before drinking, he was commonly requeft- 

 ed to rinfe his mouth with water to which a little 

 honey and vinegar had been added. His loofenefs 

 rather increafed, and the ftools were watery, 

 black, and foetid : It was judged neceflary to mo- 

 derate this difcharge, which feemed to fink him, 

 by mixing a drachm of the theriaca Andromachi 

 with each clyfter. 



2 1 ft. The fame putrid lymptoms remained, and 

 2ifubfultus tendlnum came on : his ftools were more 

 foetid ; and fo hot, that the nurfe afTured me fhe 

 could not apply her hand to the bed-pan, imme- 

 diately after they were difcharged, without feeling 

 pain on this account : The medicine and clyfters 

 were repeated. . 



Reflecting upon the difagreeable neceffity we 

 feemed to lie under of confining this putrid matter 

 in the inteftines, left the evacuation mould deftroy 

 the vis vita before there was time to correct its 

 bad quality, and overcome its bad effects, by the 

 means we were ufing ; I confidered, that, if this 

 putrid ferment could be more immediately cor- 

 rected, a ftop would probably be put to the flux, 

 which feemed to arife from, or at leaft to be en- 

 creafed by it; and the fames of the difeafe would 

 like wife be in a great meafure removed. I thought 

 nothing was fo likely to effect this, as the intro- 

 duction of fixed air into the alimentary canal, 



L 1 2 which, 



