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for feveral years paft ; and, about four years ao- 0 , 
after having taken a confiderable quantity of Peruvian! 
bark, became fuddenly paralytic. The ufe, however, 
of his right limbs was fo much reftored, as only to 
remain weaker than the other ; when, upon fuddenly 
awaking from his fleep about two o’clock in the 
morning, (May 7, 1779), he fpit up four or five 
ounces of florid blood. 
fie immediately loft twelve or fourteen ounces 
from the arm, had elixir of vitriol given him, and 
in the evening had a glyfter, and loft blood again to 
about ten ounces. 
On the 8th, about the fame hour, he again fud- 
denly awaked, and fpit about the fame quantity of 
blood as before. He was now advifed to increafe 
the quantity of elixir of vitriol, had a bolus of ex- 
t radium CampechenJ'e every fix hours, and had a leech, 
applied to a blind pile, that had long appeared after 
going to fiool. 
On the 9th, at the fame hour, he had again the. 
fame difcharge as before. That thcfe haemorrhages 
were from the pulmonary artery, rather than the 
bronchial, appears from the hidden exfpuition, the 
quantity, the floridity, and from the difcharge being 
without pain, and unmixed with phlegm. 
As he had no feverifh fymptoms, either when he 
firff awaked, or during the day, no more blood was 
taken from him ; and as he conflantly flept pro- 
foundly from ten o’clock till two, when the com- 
plaint feized him, he was now advifed to be awa- 
kened, and rife out of his bed, at one in the morn- 
ing, and remain awake till three, omitting all me- 
dicines. 
Pie 
