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On Sunday the 5th of March I was fent for to a 
gentleman, of about 30 years of age, who had been 
for fome days ill of a fever. I found him wit!) a 
decree of heat confderably above what was natural, 
and with a pulfe ratner low, but quick, and beating,, 
as meafured by a fop-watch, about a hundred frokes 
in a minute. In this fituation he continued, without 
any remarkable alteration, for the two following days ; 
and, from tire appearance of this difeafe, I imagined, 
that it would not be fpeedily terminated. On Wed- 
nefday, the third day of my feeing him, I found him 
however much better ; his heat being confderably 
abated, and bis pulfe being more than twenty frokes 
in a minute fower than it had been the day before. 
On this alteration, fo much in his favour, it might 
have been thought he was growing well, had it not 
been, that there was no appearance either by fweat 
or urine, or on the fkin, by which it could be ima- 
gined the difeafe was perfedly judged. On this 
account no alteration was made in his treatment 
that day : but finding, the next morning, that he 
had fiept well the preceding night, and that his pulfe 
continued quiet, being no more than 74 frokes in a 
minute, he was allowed to get up in the evening, to 
have his bed made; and I fiould have thought him 
well, had not every appearance of a critical feparation 
been f ill wanting. On this account, I thought him 
to be very liable to a return of his fever ; and there- 
fore, when early the next morning I w r as informed, 
that he had been without any feep, and quite deli- 
rious, the whole night, I was not greatly alarmed, 
as thinking he had a feverif 1 paroxyfm, to which the 
bark would probably put an end. When I law him 
that 
