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his Difeafe gaining Ground apace. I had him let 
Blood immediately, which was one third Part Size, 
and order'd it to be repeated, and put him under 
fuch a Regimen as the State of his Cafe then re- 
quired; but as foon as I was gone, he refufed to 
comply with my Prcfcriptions alfo. I exprefs'd my 
Concern for his obftinate Temper, and left him on 
my fourth Vifit. 
Thus were eighteen Days pafied, and his Cafe 
growing more defperate every Day. I heard no more 
of him till five Days after, which was on the twenty- 
third Day of his Difeafe, when I was intreated to vifit 
him again, and found him moft miferably affli&ed 
with two of the moft dangerous Symptoms that can 
appear at the End of fuch a dangerous Difttemper 5 
viz. a long IntermiJJion of his Pulfe every third 
or fourth Stroke, and a moft fatiguing Hiccup , 
which ftruck him violently about ten times in a 
Minute. 
His Cafe was now deplorable and defperate (thro 9 
his own Folly), and what I was almoft ready to give up, 
efpecialiy as he was then very weak and delirious : 
However, willing to aflift him, and calling to Mind 
the Accounts of the Musk fome time fince commu- 
nicated to this Learned Society *, was refolved to have 
recourfe to it here. Accordingly I dire&ed a Draught, 
confifting of an Ounce and half of ftrong Cinamon- 
water, two Drams of compound Piony-water, and 
fifteen Grains of Musk , with Orders to increafe the 
Dofe of Musk to twenty Grains, and repeat the 
Draught every fix Hours. I alfo told his Wife to give 
him a Glafs of Sack, as often as he would have it 5 
and at the fame time caufed three Bliftering Plaiftcrs 
to 
* See thefe TranJ. n. 474, p. 212 , 
