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keep him awake after Eight or Nine o’Clock in the 
Evening, if he fat down. 
This continued on him for Three or Four Months, 
and then the Pain in his Hip grew worfe j for which 
he ufed the Cold- bath, Flefh-brufh, and riding on 
Horfeback, but without any Effect. 
Hereupon he asked the Advice of Dr. Beaufort , 
who put him into a Courfe of the <^/Ethiops Mi- 
neral, Cinnabar of Antimony , and Gum Guaiacum , 
with the Spa-water , and purging with Calomel , by 
Intervals : This Method he purfued for a confiderable 
time, but without any Benefit. 
After this, by the Advice of fome Acquaintance, 
he took half a Drachm of Salt of Hartfhorn Night 
and Morning, in a Draught of warm Whey , for fome 
time 5 but without any fenfible EfFett, even by Pcr- 
fpiration. 
Some little time after this, he began to complain 
of a flight periodical Heat and Third, which returned 
every Night, with a quick hard Pulfe, but which was 
not fo great as to make him uneafy. 
It was now September 1 7 3 9- when, having an 
Opportunity of going with fome Friends, he deter- 
mined to try what the Bath would do for him : In 
his Journey thither, the nodturnal Heat and Third 
increafed fo much, as to prevent his fleeping ; but in 
the few Days that he fpent in recovering from the 
Fatigue of the Journey, they feemed to go off again. 
He then began to ufe the Waters both internally 
and externally 5 upon which the lad-mentioned 
Symptoms again appeared, and he was obliged to 
defift, and ufe cooling Medicines, 
His 
