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ftruck a chilnefs in the Blood, and made it 

 readier to ftagnate : Befides the very ad of 

 Drinking, hindring the free breathing, con- 

 duced alfo much thereto ; and therefore the 

 " Heart was fo fuddenly opprefsM, that flie 

 could not forbear flinging away whatever fhe 

 had in her Hand. She complained alfo of a 

 great rigour and ftiffnefs or ftraitnefs of the 

 Mufcles of her Breaft, fo that poffibly the 

 Spiritous Liquor that flows in the Genus Ner-- 

 njofttm may be congeaPd as well as the Blood ; 

 or the lame EfFeds may be fuppofed notwith-' 

 ftanding to be the refult of the condenfed 

 Blood clogging both the Heart and Lungs, 

 fo that the Breaft: may feem to be ftraitned 

 therewith. The fame I judge to be the caufe 

 of all the violent Luxations in this Gentle- 

 man, whofe Fingers I looked on, and found 

 the places where he had formerly been bit, 

 turned blackifli, and much inflamed about 

 them^ which confirmed me in my fentiment, 

 that it was a relapfe of his former Diftemper,! 

 that is, of the Bite of the Mad-Dog, I told 

 them, if any thing in the World would fave 

 his Life, I judged it muft be the former Vo- 

 mit of Volatile Salts; they could not tell 

 what to do, neverthelefs fuch is the Malig- 

 nacy of the World, that as foon as it was 

 given, they ran away and left me, faying, 

 he was now certainly a dead Man, to have 

 a Vomit given in that condition. Neverthe- 

 lefs it pleafed God that he ftiortly after cri- 

 ed, 'this Fellow in the Blacky has done me good^ 

 and after the firft Vomit, came fotohimfelf, 

 as to know us all. I vomited him every o- 

 ther day with this Vomit for three times, 



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