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This method fucceeded beyond what could have 
been imagined ; infomuch that it was obfervable* 
even by the attendants on this gentleman, that his 
mind came evidently more and more to itfelf after 
every dofe : and in the evening, after he had taken 
fix drachms, his urine grew thick, and dropt a late- 
ritious fediment ; and, excepting the weaknefs natu- 
rally confequent on luch violent emotions as he had 
undergone, both of mind and body, he was as well 
as ever he had been in his life. He hath repeated 
the bark at proper intervals, as is ufual after inter- 
mittent fevers, and continues to this day perfectly 
well. 
The ufe of the bark, in the mod; irregular inter- 
mittent diforders, is very happily fo well known in this 
illand, that it might perhaps have been thought need- 
lefs to have recited any cafe merely in confirmation of 
this practice : and I am too well aware of the infufiici- 
ency of every thing, but a number of fadls on which 
to found any philofophical truth, to prefume to reft 
any thing on one fingle inftance only. But the cafe 
above related is of lb very extraordinary a kind, as 
to make it worthy of being mentioned, both on its 
own account, and for that analogy, which being 
found by experience to fubfift between difeafes, af- 
fords the fureft method of reafoning on practical 
fubjedts. The two remarkable circumftances of this 
cafe are, the delirium’s coming on, and continuing > 
without any exacerbation of the pulfe j and the 
bark’s proving fo fpeedy and effedtual a remedy, tho* 
given at a time, when there was no appearance of any 
remiffion of the fymptom, which it was intended to 
remove. It hath been thought, that a quick pulfe is 
fo 
