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was at all Adventures taken up, then he 
found his Illnefs got into his Right Side. 
When he was taken off Reading, not that 
he had any Failure of his Sight, but mov- 
ing his Eyes from one Line to another of 
the Book, his Pain was quite rageouSo 
Now he firffc perceived fomewhat move 
acrofs his Body in a ftiff flow Manner, as 
if it crept from his Left Armpit to his 
Right, juft under the Skin ; and he had a 
hard Scurff on the Sternum, or Breaft-bone 
fo painful, that he could not endure the 
Touch of a down Feather. In this lan- 
guifhing deplorable Condition, he laid till 
Chriflmafs 1728, that I was fent for. I 
found him emaciated to a Sceleton, his 
Sternum , but efpecially the Pit of the Sto- 
mach was covered with brown, hard, foetid , 
thick Cruft, his Breath flunk intolerably , the 
T : mgue white , Belly exceedingly coftive , fel- 
dom a Motion to Stool once in a Week $ 
the Skin round the Body was all numb , ex- 
cept a little Piece on the Right-fide of the 
Back-bone ; Pulfe very little fever ifh ; one 
could not hear him fpeak till the Ear was 
laid to his Mouth, moft of his Nourifh- 
ments was Liquids fuck’d through a Quill 
as he laid on his Back. The Motion round 
Y 4 his 
