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I. A Letter to 2)r John Wright, F.CoL Phyf. Lond. 
to Mr Wm Cowper, F. R. S. concerning the Cure 
of an Jpojlemation of the Lurigs, 
SIR, 
According to your defire, I fend you the Cafe of Mrs 
Jam Terry, ^kc^toMi Fcwkcs in CnrJItors-Ally, near 
Lincolns-hn.md thank you for your afTiftaRce in her Cure, 
to which your extraordinary skill in your Profeffion very 
much contributed. I doubt not but an account of her, from 
the firfi; time 1 was concerned with her, will be acceptable 
to you. 1 knew her fomc time before fhe fell ill of the Small 
Pox, which was in May 1701. She was about 18 years old, 
of a frelh Complexion, and pretty fleftiy. Her Relations^ 
apprehending fhe might have the Small Pox, removed her 
to a Nurfes Houfe, where flie had the diflindl fort very 
kindly^ her Cafe proceeded fovery well (as they conceived) 
that no Phyfician was called to her, tiil they began to (hell, 
only for fome days before fhe had a little difficulty in her 
breathing, which gradually increafed till (he began toraife 
Blood, which was about the 7 th day from their firft ap- 
pearing. This raifing of Blood was accompanied with thefe 
circumftances 5 it had increased every day, for g days before 
I faw her, fhe cough'd and brought up a Vifcous Phlegm, 
fucli as our Patients Vomit when their Stomachs are very 
fonl ^ only as meer Phelgm is white, this was all of it as 
red as Blood, it was not ftreak'd with Blood, or had a mix- 
ture of white Phlegm with it, but was fo deeply colour d, 
tliat it If em'd to be all Blood, only it would not flow as 
- ^ Blood: 
