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prefcription, and the effefts {hall afterwards be men- 
tioned. 
After Wilmot had told us his own cafe, he in- 
formed us of the indifpofition of three more of his 
companions, who had been likewife employed by 
Mr. Stibbs in Newgate : wdiereupon we took their 
direction, vifited them, and found them all ill of the 
gaol-diftemper. 
The firft was Michael Sewel, who lodged in the 
Swan-yard near Newgate. This man had been ten 
days confined to his bed, without taking any medi- 
cine. He was then delirious, and had the petechial 
eruption : but obferving, that he lay in a clofe, ill- 
air ’d, and dirty room, without any attendants but his 
wife, then fuckling a child, we believed he had no 
chance to recover where he was, and therefore re- 
commended his cafe to Mr. Stibbs, who procured his 
admiflion that day into St. Thomas’s hofpital $ where 
he alfo recover’d. 
The fecond was Adam Chaddocks, who lay at a 
green-fhop in the little Old Bailey. He was taken 
ill on the fame day with the former, and had ufed 
no medicine. He had likewife the petechial fpots 
upon his bread: and back ; and tho’ he was not alto- 
gether infenfible, was affedted with a ftupor attended 
with a funk pulfe, and other fymptoms of the dif- 
temper. His landlady, who took care of him, in* 
formed us, that he had been troubled with retchings 
to vomit, and an head-ach from the beginning, and 
that for fome days pad he had been feized with a loofe- 
nefs, and that his dools were very offenfive. As 
the room this perfon lay in was large and well-air’d, 
we did not think it necelfary to remove him, but 
recommended 
