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in walking, brought the diforder upon me. I was 
always (which is very remarkable) entirely eafy, 
when I lay in bed, but was obliged, when I got up, 
to take my couch ; and could not venture to move 
from thence, but upon necelfary occafions. In the 
mean time, I continued to take the foap and lime- 
water, which by degrees I increaled fo far, as to take 
at different times an ounce of foap, and three pints 
of lime-water, every day, obferving a very regular 
diet. After fome months I found myfelf extremely 
eafy in my ordinary motions; but I never ventur’d to 
walk far, nor go at all in a wheel-carriage, keeping 
myfelf as quiet as I could, until I fhould be obliged 
to go to parliament. 
Juft before I left the country, Mr. Ranby made 
me a vifit ; and altho' I had felt no pain nor fym- 
ptom of my difeafe for fome time, he advifed me not 
to hazard going to town by any means, unlefs it were 
in a litter. However, having caufed an eafy voiture 
to be made, I undertook the journey in it the 20 of 
November 1748. which was regulated by the horfes 
going no fafter than a gentle walk, and but twenty 
miles a day. 
The cold weather, and the tedioufnefs of creeping 
fo flow, made the coachman fometimes fall into a 
trot, which I perceived, but finding no inconvenience, 
did not check his pace. The fet ftages were ob- 
ferved, but the laft two days, and particularly the laft 
day, the coachman drove from Harlow to White- 
chapel as full a trot as the horfes could well go at any 
time ; and I felt not the leaf! diforder. I took a 
chair at Whitechapel, and all that winter made ufe 
of nothing elfe, and continued extremely well ; but, 
about two months after my coming to town, I found 
fome 
