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Bolus, and never return'd again 5 fo that in a few 
Days he was able to go out of his Chambers. 
In thefe Perfons the Hiccup was the Symptom that 
induced me to give the Musk 5 but, obferving that 
this Cotivulflon, which, every one knows, affords 
bura melancholy Prognoftic, was fo fpeedily removed 
by it ; and that, in the laft-mentioned, the Siihjultus 
Tendinum alfo gave Way to it; I have ftnee order’d 
it in many other convuiiive Cafes, and always with 
Succefs. I fhall mention two or three. — 
About two Months ago, I was called to a Daughter 
of one Mr. Carter , Habcrdalher of Small- Wares in 
Besjodley. She was about (even Years of Age, and 
had been ill of a Fever (proceeding, as it was ima- 
gined from Worms) for about four Weeks. At the 
time I faw her, fhe had been fenfeiefs and fpeechlefs 
for feveral Days; as I remember, not lefs than ten 
or twelve. A great Part of this Time file had had 
ftrong Convulfions, and could fcarce fwallow any- 
thing at all j fo that they every Hour expedited her 
Death. Mr. M — ~, the Apothecary, told me, Thar, 
the Day before I (aw her, flic had had a general Teta- 
nus , her Joints being quite inflexible : When I faw 
her, every Mufcle was, by turns, convuls’d j her 
Head, in particular, was fo forcibly drawn back- 
wards, as, at d hFe rent times, to raife her Body from 
off the Bed. As fhe (wallow’d with fo much 
Difficulty, there was little Hope of giving her any Me- 
dicine by the Mouth ; I therefore ordered twelve Grains 
of Musk, ground with Oil and Sugar to be mix’d with 
fome thin Broth, and thrown up by way of Clyde r ; 
and this to be repeated at two or three Hours Di- 
ftance. In an Hour's time after the firfl Clyftcr, the 
Convulfions, as I was inform’d, manifeflly abated, 
and 
