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with an appetite, and of a variety of difhes ; drank 
fome Madeira, and was very chearful the whole 
time. His Lordfhip then told me, that he had 
enjoyed perfect health fince he fent his cafe to the 
Royal Society ; that he thought it probable there 
was ftill a ftone in his bladder, but fo diminifhed, 
or fmoothed, as to give him no uneafinefs ; that he 
did not think it fafe to go about the ftreets of London 
in a coach, but that he went every where in a chair ; 
and that, in the country, he could travel 40 miles a - 
day in his poft-chaife, without fatigue, or feeling any 
of his old pains upon the motion. That he con- 
tinued to drink, for a conftancy, three pints of oyfter- 
fhell lime-water daily ; and to take, as often, from 
half an ounce to a whole ounce of loap, by way of 
lenitive. All thefe circumftances I am fure of, be- 
caufe I noted them down when I came home. 
From this time to the beginning of winter, Lord 
Walpole (as Mr. Graham, his apothecary, informed 
me) continued in the fame ftate of health ; but fome 
time after coming to town, his Lordfhip was feized 
with a lingering feverifh diforder, very much affedting 
his fpirits, but intirely unconnected with the ftone. 
Dr. Shaw, who attended his Lordfhip for about a 
fortnight before his death, told me, that there had 
never been any ftoppage of water, or pafling of 
bloody urine, or any pain about his bladder or kid- 
neys, during his laft illnefs ; but that he now and 
then felt fome irritation in making water, a fymptom 
too inconfiderable to require any other medicine than 
the continuation of his lime-water ; which, in a fmal- 
ler quantity, he drank till within two or three days of 
his end. 
Mr. 
