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recommended him to the care of Dr. Pate, phyfician 
of St. Bartholomew's hofpital, who attended him till 
he recover’d. 
The third was John Dobie, apprentice to Mr. Stibbs, 
a lad about 1 5 years of age, who liv’d with his pa- 
rents in a court by the White Bear in Canon- dreet. 
We faw him on the fame day with the other two, 
which was the fourteenth of his ficknefs, and the 
twelfth fince he took to his bed. His mother told 
us, that fome of the journeymen working in New- 
gate had forced him to go down into the great trunk 
of the ventilator, in order to bring up a wig, which one 
them had thrown into it ; and that, as the machine 
was then working, he had almod been fuffo- 
cated with the flench, before they could get him up. 
That upon coming home he complained of a violent 
head-ach, a great diforder in his domach, with retch- 
ings to vomit, which had never intirely left him. We 
found him extremely low, with a funk pulfe, a de- 
lirium, and an unufual anxiety or oppreflion about 
his bread:. This laft fymptom we afcribed to the 
opiates he was then taking for a loofenefs, which had 
come on two or three days before we faw him. He 
being in no condition to be moved, and being befides 
well attended by his mother, and in a well-aired 
chamber, we prefcribed to him there, and repeated 
our vifits, till he was quite free of the fever. It was 
obfervable, that before he was taken ill, he had been 
twice let down into the great trunk of the ventilator, 
when the machine was Handing dill, without com- 
plaining of any ill fmell, or receiving any hurt there- 
by ; but that the lad time, when the machine was 
working, he immediately cried out he was ready to 
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