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of (i), and fhall now evince more fully by the fol- 
lowing cafes. 
I. A widow lady, aged about 50, was feized (De- 
cember 1755-) with a bad cough, oppreffion about 
her llomach and bread;, and a pain in her right lide, 
tho’ not very acute. Her pulfe being quick, and 
fkin hot, fome blood was taken away, which was a 
good deal fizy : attenuating and expectorating medi- 
cines were alfo prefcribed. But as her complaints 
did not yield to thefe remedies, I was called on De- 
cember 26th, after the had been ill about ten days ; 
at which time her pulfe beat from 96 to 100 times 
in a minute, but was not fuller than natural. I or- 
dered her to lofe feven or eight ounces more of blood, 
which,, like the former, was fizy ; and next day, 
finding no abatement of her complaints, I advifed a 
blifter to be applied, in the evening, to that part of 
her right fide which was pained. Next morning, 
when the blifter was removed, the pain of her fide 
was gone, and her pulfe beat only 88 times in a mi- 
nute, and in two days more it came down to 78. 
However, after the bliftered part became dry, the 
pulfe rofe in one day’s time to 96, and continued be- 
tween that number and 9a for four days.; after which 
I ordered a large blifter to be put between her (boul- 
ders. When this plaifter was taken off, her pulfe 
beat under 90 times in a minute ; and next day it 
fell to 76, and the day after to 7 2 . The cough and 
other fymptoms, which were relieved by the firll 
blifter, were quite cured by the fecond. 
(x) Phyfiological Eflays, p. 69. 
II. Jolin 
