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Ills hands, and the infide of his fingers, was become 
fo hard and rigid, that he was no longer capable of 
doing either this, or any other bufinefs. 
For relief of this diforder, he applied to the perfon, 
who attends the family in capacity of apothecary, 
who gave him feveral dofes of purging phyfic, but 
without fuccefs. 
He was next admitted an out-patient at St. Tho- 
mas’s hofpital, where he attended fix weeks or two 
months, but without receiving any benefit. 
Somebody then told him, his complaint was owing 
to the fcurvy, (to which he had been fubjedt) and he 
accordingly applied himfelf to feveral perfons, who 
advertife remedies for curing that diftemper, and, 
among the reft, to Mr. Ward, of whom he had 
fome pills ; and once,*by miftake, took two of them 
for a dofe, which operated fo violently, that every 
body in the family imagined he could not furvive it : 
however, he ftill continued in the fame condition. 
And now thinking, that if he was admitted an in- 
patient at the hofpital, he fhould be more likely to 
obtain a cure, he got himfelf admitted, and was 
there about two months longer; at the end of which 
time he was difcharged, but in no better condition 
than before. 
About a fortnight after this, and a twelvemonth 
from the beginning of his diforder, viz. Auguft 10, 
1760, the perfon, who is foreman to Mr. Newman, 
defired leave to write to me, for my opinion of the 
cafe; which being very readily granted, he defired 
me, by letter, to come and fee a young man, who, 
as lie expreffed it “ had poifoned his hands with 
brafs and oil of vitriol.” 
When 
