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. the back, informed me what the case was. Had Chiron Third 



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himself been present, he could not have told me more 



distinctly that I was going to have a tight brush of it, 

 and that I ought to meet it with becoming fortitude. 

 I dozed, and woke, and startled, and then dozed again, 

 and suddenly awoke, thinking I was falling down a 

 precipice. 



The return of the bats to their diurnal retreat, which 

 was in the thatch above my hammock, informed me that 

 the sun was now fast approaching to the eastern horizon. 

 I arose, in languor and in pain, the pulse at one hundred 

 and twenty. I took ten grains of calomel and a scruple 

 of jalap, and drank during the day large draughts of tea, 

 weak and warm. The physic did its duty ; but there 

 was no remission of fever or liead-ach, though the pain 

 in the back was less acute. I was saved the trouble of 

 keeping the room cool, as the wind beat in at every 

 quarter. 



At five in the evening the pulse had risen to one 

 hundred and thirty, and the head-ach almost insupport- 

 able, especially on looking to the right or left. I now 

 opened a vein, and made a large orifice, to allow the 

 blood to rush out rapidly ; I closed it after losing sixteen 

 ounces. I then steeped my feet in Avarm water, and got 

 into the hammock. After bleeding, the pulse fell to 

 ninety, and the head was much relieved ; but during the 

 night, which was very restless, the pulse rose again to 



