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fever, attended with a ftupor, and a funk pulfe, and 
that the fever had not left him till feveral days after 
his admiflion. The nurfe’s account was, that he had 
all along lain like one flupified, and that after the 
fever went off, he had continued for fome time very 
dull of hearing. We could learn nothing certain about 
the precife duration of the fever, but from what the 
patient and his attendants told us, we collected, that 
he muft have been ill between two and three weeks. 
So that from all thefe marks we made little doubt, 
but that this perfon had been ill of the true gaol-dif- 
temperj and were confirmed in our opinion by the 
following circumftance. 
In company with the convalefcent was one Tho- 
mas Wilmot, another of Mr. Stibbs's journeymen, 
who had likewife worked in Newgate, and whom 
we remembered a few days before to have feen in 
that place, very adtive, and in perfect health. This 
man told us, he had come to fee his companion, but 
as he apprehended himfelf in danger of falling into 
the fame fever, he fhould therefore be glad of our 
advice. Upon examination we found his tongue 
white, his pulfe quick, and that he complained of a 
pain and confufion of his head, with a fhaking of his 
hands, and a weaknefs in his limbs. He faid his dif- 
order had come on gradually, fince the time we faw 
him in Newgate, but that he was then fo very ill, he 
could work no longer. From which account it ap- 
peared to us, that this man had alfo caught the in- 
fedtion ; but as the fever feemed not to be quite 
formed, we had hopes of flopping its progrefs : and 
with this view we advifed him to take a vomit, and 
on the following night a fudorific. He followed the 
prefcription, 
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