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I found him affli&cd with a terrible Hiccup, which 
had continued on him four or five Days without a Mi- 
nute's Intermiflion j fo that he had had no Sleep all 
this time. His Pulfe was exceedidg quick, fmall, and 
unequal: The Blood, which had beeu feveral times, 
and in large Quantities, taken from him before I faw 
him, was cover’d with a prodigioufly thick buff Coat; 
his Urine limpid ; his Face of a leaden Hue, and 
ghaftly : his Extremities cold, and cover’d with a 
clammy Sweat ; and whenever the Hiccup return’d, 
which it did at almoft every Infpiration, the Hypo- 
chondria were ftrongly convuls’d and drawn up- 
wards. — — Recollecting that Fuller recommends his 
yulap. Mofchat. in the like Cafes ( d ), but thinking 
the Quantity of Musk, therein prefcribed, too fmall 
to be depended on in one fo defperate (more efpecially 
having before feen the furprifing Succefs of a large 
Dofe),I order’d him a Bolus compofed of Musk, Nitre, 
Crabs-eycs, of each twelve Grains, Camphire one 
G ain,Mithridate a fufficient Quantityj to be taken im- 
mediately, and repeated in eight Hours, taking a Spoon- 
ful or two of Fuller’s Julap, occalionally, once in 
two or three Hours. He had no fooner fwallowed 
the Bolus, which I (laid to fee him take, than his 
Hiccup 
(d) In Febribus malt Moris , qua-’ Vapor es deleterios ad Stomachum 
ftifundunt ■ Spiritufque labantes irritant • in Confufoues <& Spafmos 
adigunt ; <£,- Sing^ultum inde excitant: nondum ha cienus prafavtius 
nrji Remedium : altquanclo enivi dirsivitus (uccurrit , & Sing'dturn fupe- 
rat. Vt ingenue tamen fa tear, tarn funefum hoc Jape notavi ejfe Sym- 
ptorna^ut neque hoc neque aliud quodcunque vel excogitare vel invenire, 
mihi adhuc datutn ft, quod III [par ejjet j Jed totis licet Viribus certavi , 
Fatis tamen frupra obnifus Jum. 
Fuller. Pharmacop. ex r emporan. fuh Tit. Julap Mofchat. 
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