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In order to relieve her, die had been dire&ed to 
ufe both the warm and cold bath, bleeding, purging, 
turpentine clyders, and a drong infufion of pareira 
brava, without any fuccefs : cantharides had like- 
wife been given her to the quantity of three grains in 
a dofe ; and this dofe had been repeated four times 
in 24 hours ; but without any other effedt than that 
of occafioning pains in her throat, domach, and 
bowels, with vomiting and purging. A wet towel 
put round her waid, feemed to do the moil good, 
and brought away fome water two or three times ; 
but afterwards ceafed to have this effect. 
From the 26th of April, 1756, die made no wa- 
ter, and felt no want of making it, for many months ; 
yet all this time (lie could eat once or twice a day, 
and was able to walk and ride. She was fparing in 
the ufe of liquids ; die had but little deep, no fweats, 
and her ddn had no urinous fmell : her breathing 
was often very laborious, with a dry cough : the ca- 
tamenia were irregular : there were oedematous fwell- 
ings in her limbs, abdomen, hips, and face ; but, by 
the help of purges, and fpontaneous vomitings, which 
began in the third month of the luppredion, thefe 
dwellings were tolerably kept under. She vomited 
fometimes every day, and fometimes only every third 
or fourth day; arid tho’ thefe vomitings ufually came 
on prefently after dinner, yet what die vomited feem- 
ed to be mere urine, without any thing which die 
had eaten mixed with it. In the beginning of June 
1 757, the nipples of her breads chopped, and dif- 
charged fometimes a watery humour, fometimes a 
thick matter, dreaked with blood, and fometimes a 
humour approaching to the colour of urine : all thefe 
dil- 
