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been thrown on them. His dockings being imme- 
diately pulled off, there appeared a great many red 
fpots, as large as (ix-pences, fomething railed abova 
the (kin, and all covered with very fmall blitters. 
In about two hours after the accident, I did faw 
him : he was very uneafy, complaining of pain, and 
great anxiety, at the pit of the ftomacb, as if a burn- 
ing hot iron was laid on it: fo he expreded himfelf. 
His pulfe was regular, but flower and weaker than 
natural : he had a naufea, and complained of a very 
coppery lmell and tade. I ordered fome alcaline. 
volatile medicines, and to drink fmall fack-whey. 
He vomited once, and had four or five flools, and 
then his flomach grew eafy. But the fcene foom 
began again with lancing pain in the left eye. He 
continued the fame medicines, drank plentifully of 
the whey, and was kept in a breathing fweat, by 
which he found fome eafe at night: but whenever 
the l'weating leffened, the burning pains returned in 
broad flakes, changing from one part of the body to 
the other ; fometimes with fhootings in his eye, and 
fometimes along the penis, but he had no heat of 
urine. His pulfe continued regular, but weak ; and' 
in feveral places of his body fuch kind of fpots (truck 
out as thofe on his legs. 
Monday, the third day, in the morning, after 
deeping well, his pulfe was fomewhat railed, and he 
continued eafy till about eleven o’ clock, when the 
burning pains returned, (hooting from place to place ; 
but always fo fuperficial, that he could not diftinguilh 
whether it was in or under the fkin. Rubbing the 
part affedted with one’s hand gave eafe : but when 
tke fweating went off, and the burnings and dioot- 
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