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This, Sir, according to the beft of my memory, 
is my cafe : and if it can be of any benefit to you, 
in the cure of this painful difeafe, it will give great 
pleafure to, 
The ExtraB from Dr. AuftinV Letter to Dr. Pringle. 
Read April 28. TpH E Rev. Mr. Simfon’s letter to me 
-*■ was written in the year 1 749 j about 
which time he told me, that he had ridden 40 miles 
in a day, without any bad fymptom enfuing. 
In the year 1752 he broke his thigh-bone at the 
neck, by a fall from his horfe, and continued for fix 
weeks in great pain but after that time he grew eafier, 
and was able to put his foot to the ground. One 
day, as his fervant was helping him to walk acrofs 
the room, he let him fall j upon which Mr. Simfon 
felt a fevere pain : the broken leg became then evi - 
dently fhorter than the other ; and by that misfor- 
tune he was confined to his bed for near two years. 
However, about fix months before he died, he was 
fo well recovered, as to be able to go to church, and 
to perform divine fervice. 
About the beginning of May 17 y6, Mr. Simfon 
was feized with a diarrhoea, which refilled all medi- 
cine, and carried him off in the 83d year of his age. 
From the date of his letter to his death he had never 
difcontinued the ufe of the foap (except during the time 
Nov. 20th, 1749. 
Dear Sir, 
Your moft obedient Servant, 
Matthew Simfon. 
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