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fadden fwellings mafl theGlaoduIs about the mouth andthroa£ 
upon the firft draught of beer at meals | which ye? would in a 
Ihor t , time fall again* 
Laftly, as to the particulars remarkabfe at the time ofits be*, 
ing taken away, he relates j That it began its work with a fad- 
den i which vertiginous difpofition continued more 6r 
iefs from Spring 'till Auguft ; in which month, without an^ 
previous caufe fave riding, the place where it was lodged fad^ 
dainly Iwelled, and ran purulent matter at the aperture of the 
dufius Wbartomanus : that it fuddainly ftopped of its runing 
(which he cannot attribute to any thing but Gofd J and fwelled 
with a great inflammation, and very great danger of choaking^ 
it being fcarce credible^ what pain the party fuffered in endea* 
vouring to fwallow even beer^or any liquid thing. 
This extremity lafted 5 days, in all which time, the party had 
fo vaft a flux of fpittle runing from him, that it was not poffibfe 
for him to repofe his head to fleep^wichout wetting all the bed 
about him; infomuch as that it was very much queftioned by 
fome friendly vifitants, whether he had not of himfelf^orby 
miftake, made ufe of fome Mercurial medicine. 
The varieties or degrees of this fpontaneous filwation were fuch, 
that he urged me not to omit them in the relation I was to make 
to your Gracc^as thinking them very notable* 
The firft day, the [diva ran thin and tranfparent,a!moft4ike 
water without any bubles. The 2 day it ran frothy 5 it tafted fait, 
X which yet he is apt to think hot rather than really falt^ becaufc 
that day the inflammation was at the.height).The3day it roaped 
exceedingly 5 on which day a fmall piQ«hole broak dire£ilyo« 
verthe place of the Stone and ran with purulent matter as for* 
merly* The 4 day the falivn ran injipd, fenfibly cold in the 
mouth J ( which again confirms meVn that opinion , that the 
former lharp taftwas theeffeaof heat, and not the immediate 
quality of a fait humour s ) very little frothy. The f day (which 
was the day of the incifion, ) it ran as on the i^th but left an ex- 
tream claminefs on the teeth , infomuch that they often clave 
£ogether,as though they had been joyncd together with glue. 
Upon the incjfion, which proved not wide enough, the mem- 
branes or baggs, wherein the ^tone lay^came away firft. As to the 
Stone it felfjit was fo hard as to endure the forcipes in drawingic 
S s s s forth 
