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more tolerable, and infenfibly grew better, the cam- 
phor being no longer perceptible in the breath or 
evacuations. Her drink now was water with the 
addition of a little milk. 
The patient’s fpirits, which, by means of the great 
irritation and feveridi tumult the caudic tindure had 
excited, kept up furprihngly, now began to fail her, 
and die was with difficulty got into bed : where, after 
complaining for a diort time only of a forenefs in 
the fird paffages, die lay fweating profufely for four 
hours in a very low defponding condition. 
A gentle opiate was exhibited, which took effed > 
and after a found deep of five hours the patient 
waked very eafy, took dome of the fperma ceti mix- 
ture, and had another deep of three hours. She 
now found herfelf free from all her complaints ; the 
previous dow fever, as well as the effeds of the 
poifonous tindure, being entirely carried off. 
It is remarkable, that the patient found herfelf, 
for four days fuccedlvely, in fo happy a date of eafe 
and tranquillity, as die had never before experienced, 
and to this day enjoys a perfed flate of health. 
Thus have I laid before you the true hiftory of 
this cafe ; for the dmple relation of which I datter 
myfelf I need make no apology, when I reded, 
that the pradice of phyfic mud derive much greater 
advantages from plain hidories of matter of fad, and 
jud dedudions drawn from them, than from the 
mod ingenious hypothefes and fpeculative theories. 
Thefe were of baneful induence to the progrefs of 
true knowlege, till your illudrious Society taught the 
world the true method of invedigating the laws of 
Vol. LI. 4R nature. 
