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that he fofgot to return, and perfeft the courfe ; and I 
heard no more of him for half a Year, when I was 
fetch'd one Morning to him in great haft. He had been 
abroad, play'd the Good- Fellow, and in his return home, 
having rode a great days Journey, being weary, and I 
fuppoie finding himfelf indifpofed, he (laid all Night in 
our Town, it being fortunately in his way. In the 
Morning when he fliould have got up, he could not 
ftand, whereupon the Apothecary was fent for, and a 
Surgeon to Blood him, which was accordingly done, but 
he grew worfe ; for in this cale I look upon Bleeding 
to be ttry prejudicial, as well as in moft Malignant Fe- 
vers , for thereby the Spirits are diminifhed, and the 
Blood congealed the (boner .When they had done all they 
could, and the Symptoms ftill increafed, they at length 
fent for me. I never (aw Manor Creature in that Agony 
in all my life,that I found him in,fen(elefs,and mad, when 
at beft, but every Minute the fierceft Ihiverings ran 
through him, his Eyes would firft roll and then fet, as 
if ready to ftart out of his Head, but above all, the Swel- 
ling and Luftation at his Breaft/wasas if he would burff, 
which went off with a prodigious figh : All this I judge 
the Effefts of the Heart labouring to difcharge itfelf of 
the ftagnating Blood, and the Nervous Convuhions as 
confequences thereof. And I am the more confirmed in 
this, from what I faw in a Woman that was bit al(b with 
a Mad- Dog in the Leg, and fell ill the very day that the 
had paid the Ghirurgeon for her Cure ; and notwithftand- 
ing all that could be done, growing worfe, they fent for 
me ; I went, and found her with what is called a Hyelro* 
fhohiai She would look earneftly after Drink or Water, 
and feem to defire it, but as foon as (he began to drink, 
away it went, be it what it would, with the greateft vio- 
lence (he could poffibly fling it. I gave her the Vomit 
hereafter and alfo before mentioned, but (he got but little 
of it down, and I had no more with me ; neverthelefs 
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