ty the Pus did (be before Coughed op, when the Liquor 
that was Injefted at her fide came into her Mouth 5. which 
(he frequently complained of, and particularly at the bit^ 
terifti tafte of the Tinfture ot Myrrhe I fometimbs ufed in 
the Injeftioos. 
Among the many Dilaffcftions of the parts of Humane 
: Bodies, the Difej:!fes of the Lungs have been lookt on as 
none of the leaft" dangerous ; And indeed if Obfervations 
did not affure us of the poffibility of fuccefs, the com- 
monly known ftrudure oi the Longs v/ould aiford us 
:but mean Arguments -for the ftiift Nature mzlQi,. in the 
inftatice you have given fo exaft a Deftiipuoo. m. as- 
well as fome other Initances of the like Nature I have rner 
with. 
^ About two or three years fince, I law a Boy in the ninth 
or tenth year of his Age, who (fome time before) after a 
Continue Fever was porfu d with 'an Intermitting one ^ a 
Cough follow'd, in v/hich he brought up (at ftiort intervalbV 
no llnall quantity of thick purulent ftinking Pm^ which dii- 
charge (I think) continued on him not lefs than fourteen or 
fifteen months before I faw'him : His PhyOcians ordered him 
Iffues in his Back, which I made as ufuai : He had then a 
healthy Afpeft, his Cheeks florid, a^nd was very brisk and 
aftive : When he juft came from play he was bid to take a 
Bafon in his Hand and Cough as he was wont, which he 
did^ wherein I faw him difcharge at his Mouth not lefs 
than 4 or 5 Ounces of tlie fort of Pus above-mentioned t 
This his Mother told me he had • been wont to do twice 
every day ^ fior did he appear any ways' difordered after, 
but return'd tb:^a,y inimediately. iBis Phyficians fent hiio 
into the Country Wheric^ he came/; where in about a twelve- 
month I heard he dyed, but was hot acquainted with his 
. circumftances after : What fuccefs the operation we prafti- 
fed on Mrs Terry would have had on this. Boy, I dare not 
determine ^ tho I cannot but think it might have been fafe- 
ly done to him and another Patient I was fince calfd to^ 
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