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pulfe, that there was fomething very extraordinarily 
difordered in the heart itlelf, or in fome of the large 
veffels near it. The regularity of the pulfe inclined me 
to fuppofe an aneurifm, rather than polypofe affecti- 
ons. All this time, however, no outward appearance 
ffrengthened this fuppofition. 
No remedies alleviated his complaints in any de- 
gree, except bleeding, which afforded a relief ; but 
very temporary, and weakened him too much to be 
repeated more than once. All that it feemed to do 
for him was the procuring him rather more deep the 
night after, than he ufually had, and eafing a little 
tickling cough which had remained with him, ever 
fince the year 1759’ times $ and particularly fince 
his rheumatifm, but which was never very trouble- 
l'ome. 
Soon after I firff faw him his legs became oedema- 
tous, and by the beginning of April his thighs were 
much enlarged, and at length his belly in iome de- 
gree. At this time he began to cough more from 
having taken cold, inadvertently as he thought, but 
he foon expedorated freely. By the middle of April 
he was too weak to fit up, nor could he Ipeak or ffir 
without being ready to expire for want of breath. On 
the night of the 20th of April, as he was coughing 
an haemoptoe fuffocated him inffantly. 
About two quarts of a thin coffee-coloured liquor 
were found in the cavity of the abdomen. The omen- 
tum was very fmall, perhaps it would not weigh more 
than two ounces. The ffomach and inteftines were 
greatly inflated. In all other refpeds, the vifcera of 
this cavity, as far as an hafty examination would per- 
mit us to obferve, were in a found ffate. 
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