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XV. A remarkable Injlance of the happy 
EjfeEl of Musk, in a very dangerous Cafe j 
by James Parfons, M. D. F. R. 8. 
Read Feb. 20.^ JTr. ^Darlington, who lodges at the 
1745 * JlVjL Chejhire Cheefe below Charing - 
Crofs , a Man of a robuft Habit of Body, was taken 
ill about the Beginning of December iaft of a Rheum- 
atic Fever, attended with the Lofs of the Ufe of 
his Limbs, exceffive Pain in every Part, and Swell- 
ings in his Knees and Hands, with ail the other 
Symptoms ufuai in this kind of Fever : Befides which 
he cough'd up grumous Blood, and had a Pain 
whiclrwas very violent in his right Side, from a Fall 
againfi: the Edge of a Table, a few Days before he 
was feiz'd with this Fever, which render'd his Cafe 
the more dangerous. 
During the fi'rft ten Days he was attended by his 
Apothecary only; who, finding him grow worfe, 
propofed a Phyfician, who was accordingly called in, 
and order'd a Bleeding, with fuch other Remedies as 
he thought neceffary : This, I underftood, was the 
fecond time he had been let Blood. But the Patient 
by this time was fo averfe to taking Medicines, that 
he did not duly follow the Method order'd by this 
Gentleman, and at length abfolutely refufed to take 
any more, and fo difeharged the Dodtor on the 
fourth Day of his Attendance. 
On the fifeenth Day of his Illnefs he fent for 
me, having been formerly concerned for fome of 
his Family. 1 found his Symptoms increafed, and 
K z his 
