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more violent, and the bile more pu- 
trefcent. A bare date of the many 
odd cafes that came under my care 
would fill feveral fheets of paper ; but 
as my own was very particular, I fhall 
only mention that. I was taken on the 
24th Dec. lad: with a flight fever and 
fore throat, which continued three 
days : then the fever and fore throat 
left me ; but for three nights after- 
wards I felt more uneafinefs than I 
ever before was fenfible of, tho’ quite 
free from pain or fever. I waked, I 
fuppofe, at lead: an hundred times 
each of thefe nights. If I tried to lie 
on either dde, I always turned in- 
fenfibly on my back. When adeep, 
my imagination was filled with the 
mod frightful ideas that ever didurb- 
ed an human mind j but I could re- 
member none of them when I awoke. 
I condantly lod my breath when 
adeep ; and was waked by an hideous 
whooping noife, like that of a child in 
a chin-cough. I prefently fell adeep 
again, and the fame horrid feene was 
re-a£ted. The feventh night from my 
fird attack was attended with a new 
train of fymptoms. About three o’ 
clock in the morning 1 was affiidted 
with a mod excruciating pain about 
the fifth or fixth vertebra of the back, 
like the boring of an augre. I was 
forced to quit the bed, and, to my 
great 
