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till about two o’clock the Thurfday morning before, 
when he was feized with a violent ficknefs and vo- 
miting. The day following he continued very ill, 
and particularly felt an unufual pain, whenever he 
attempted to drink. Friday and Saturday that fym- 
ptom grew worfe ; and on Sunday he could not 
fwallow the leaft quantity of liquor, without the 
iUmoft mifery. 
This was the day we faw him. He look’d fome- 
what wild in his eyes ; but, in his difcourfe with us, 
difcover’d no figns of madnels. His pulfe was ex* 
tremely quick, but not weak and deprefled. We 
examin'd his fauces , and found an inflammation. 
We defir’ d him to give us an opportunity to fee how 
he could bear an attempt to get down fome liquid. 
He readily con fen ted. He chofe to fit down upon 
the floor, then took a cup of water in his own hand, 
and put it to his mouth. The moment the liquor 
reach’d his throat, he fuddenly fprung up on his 
feet, -and ran about the room in the moll violent 
agony, that can be conceiv’d. It muft be obferv’d, 
that he could get down fmail quantities of food that 
was folid, all the time this fymptom was upon him. 
Fie informed us, he had been let blood twice the 
day before he came to us. We agreed to take from 
him 1 2 ounces more, and to give him a grain of 
extract urn ‘Thebaicum every hour, till -there appear’d 
fome figns of ftupor from the medicine. We like- 
wile order’d him a clyfter of decoct, furfur is with 
nitre. The blood was found next day not differing 
from that of a perfon in health. The extract was 
made up in pills of a grain each, which he could 
fwallow without difficulty. I faw him again at eight 
o’clock 
