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minute. After this he continued to recover flowly,, 
without the affiflance of any other medicine, except 
the tinftura rofarum and the mixture with gtm. am - 
mon. and acet. Jcillit. and at prefent he enjoys good 
health. 
III. Mrs. , aged upwards of 40, who had' 
for feveral years been fubjedl to a cough and fpitting 
in the winter months, was, in Odtober 175” 6, feized- 
with thofe complaints in a much greater degree than 
ufual ; to remove which, fhe was blooded* and got 
fome attenuating and pedloral medicines from Mr. 
John Balfour, furgeon-apothecary in Leith. I was 
called on November 11th, after fhe had been ill: 
feveral weeks, and found her in a very unpromifing: 
condition. She had a frequent and fevere cough r 
with great fhortnefs of breath and a wheezing j her 
lungs feemed to be quite fluffed with phlegm, of 
which fhe fpit a vafl quantity every day, and of fuch 
an appearance, that I was apprehenfive it was, in 
part at leafl, truly purulent. When fhe fat up in ar 
chair, her pulfe beat above 130 times in a minute. 
She had a confiderable thirfl, and her tongue was of 
a deep red colour,, with a beginning aphthous cruft 
on fome parts of it. She was fo weak, and her pulfe. 
fo feeble, that there was no place for further bleed- 
ing : a blifler was therefore applied to her back, 
November 1 ith, which fomewhat lowered her pulle, 
and leffened the fhortnefs of breathing and quantity 
of phlegm in her lungs. November 1 6th, a fecond- 
blifler was laid to her fide,, which gave her flill more 
fenfible relief than the former, and reduced her pulfe 
to 114 flrokes in a minute. November 25th, a third 
bliller 
