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great fatisfadlion, and would have immediately fallen 
into that method ; but my relations, touch’d with 
the fatal effedts, which Dr. Jurin’s lixivium had had 
upon the late lord Orford, would not fuffer me to 
follow my own inclinations. 
While I had a fevere fit upon me, I was vifited by 
the earl of Morton, who, upon hearing what was 
my diforder, gave me an account of the powerful 
benefit and entire cure, which Mr. Summers had 
found in voiding the flone, that had tormented him for 
many years, by adding lime-water to the foap, which 
he had taken for fome time without any fuccefs. 
This example, by the encouragement of Mr. Gra- 
ham, my apothecary, fix’d my refolution to follow 
that method ; and accordingly before I left the town, 
I often perus’d Dr. Whytt’s effay relating to the 
ftone. 
In March 1747-8. I began at firft with taking 
every day half an ounce of Alicant foap, made up into 
pills with the fyrup of marfhmallows, and drank up- 
on it about a pint of lime-water made of oyfter- 
fhells ; mixing a fpoonful of milk with it, and drink- 
ing a fpoonful after it, to take away the naufeoufnefs 
of the tafle. 
Upon the road, as I went into the country in May 
1748, I had a molt fevere fit at Newport, making 
bloody water, .with frequent interruptions at fhort 
intervals, attended with violent pains, which conti- 
nued upon me to fuch a degree, that I could not 
endure the horfes to go more than a foot-pace for 
above 70 miles, until I came home. 
After my arrival there I was tolerably well for 
fome days ; but the leafl motion in a coach, or even 
in 
