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He took his fweating and purging Medicines Two 
or Three times, but found no fort of Effed from 
them ; and being now quite tired of Phylic, and 
reduced extremely low, he determined to pafs the 
reft of his Time as eafily as he could, by gradually in- 
creafing his Opiate ; and in this manner languifhed, 
incapable of ftirring or helping himfelf, till the 2d 
of May 1740. and then died. 
For a confiderable Time before he died, he was 
nouriftied by Fluids only : Yet, as foon as ever they 
were received into the Stomach, in however fmall 
Quantity, they gave him an acute Pain at the Bottom 
of his Belly, juft above the ‘Pubis . 
For Two Months, or more, before his Death, he 
could never make any Water while lie was up, but 
always made a good deal at different times when in 
Bed. 
Soon after his Return to London , I opened the 
Tumour I had taken out of his Thigh Two Years 
before, and found the Infide of it offified. 
Upon Diffedion, the firft thing that offered itfelf 
was a large Tumour on the Sternum , which had been 
perceived about Three Months before he died: It was 
as large as a Turkey s Egg , and fo hard and immove- 
able, that I was in doubt whether it was upon or 
under the Bone. 
Upon removing the Skin, it appeared covered by 
the Expanfion of the Tendons of the intercoftai 
Mufcles, and th zPeriofteum: This Coat being taken 
off, it was of a fuetty kind of Subftance for about 
half an Inch deep ; and below this was a kind of Car- 
tilage intermixed with a great many bony Particles. 
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