CHARLES WATERT0N, ESQ. CXXxiii 



trim the brambles on the sides of the brook, 

 I remained in the water for upwards of an 

 hour. The dysentery appeared again, and 

 again Doctor Hobson triumphed. 



In the summer following I had a request 

 from Mr. Bennett to accompany him to York, 

 on an urgent family affair. Whilst I was in 

 the Minster a shivering fit came on with such 

 severity that I could have fancied I had fallen 

 in with my old foe the tertian ague, so for- 

 midable in the unwholesome swamps of Guiana. 

 But it turned out to be the harbinger of a 

 third attack of dysentery, and a third time 

 Doctor Hobson proved his consummate know- 

 ledge by counteracting its advances. In fact 

 he not only arrested its progress, but beat it so 

 completely, that it never rallied. After this, 

 my strength returned apace, and I am now 

 in the finest state of health that any man 

 can possibly wish to enjoy. Thanks, under 

 Heaven, to the skill of my medical adviser 

 and to his accomplished lady, whose kind at- 

 tentions to me during the period in which life 

 and death were struggling for superiority, have 

 for ever rendered me her grateful and devoted 

 debtor. 



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