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the turn of his fever ; that his pulfe had been ex- 
tremely low all that time, and that they believed him 
to be in the utmod danger. He added, that the wife 
of Michael Sewel (the fecond patient they had re- 
ceived of thofe, who had been employ’d in Newgate) 
fome days after her husband’s admiffion, came to 
feek advice for herfelf, and that her complaints had 
been the fame with Wilmot’s at the time we faw 
him : he added, that he had given her fome medi- 
cines, but had heard nothing of her fince. 
On the lad day of December Mr. Breach informed 
me, that about a month before, he had been call’d 
to attend Thomas Wilmot ; but as he died before he 
faw him, he could give no other account of his fick- 
nefs, than as they told him ; viz. that he had long 
been in a bad date of health, and that at lad; he be- 
came feverifh, and went off with a loofenefs. 
In the beginning of this month (January 1753) 
the widow applied to Dr. Hales and me, in order 
to have the diftrefs of her family atteded, and laid 
before the lord mayor, in hopes of having fome pro- 
vidon made for them. Upon which occaiion we 
learned, that 'Thomas Wilmot her husband, after 
taking the fudorific, fo far recover’d as to work at his 
bufinefs ; but that tho’ he did not return to Newgate, 
yet his drength would not permit him to continue at 
work above a day or two at a time ; ftill complain- 
ing of an head-ach, and pains acrofs his bread:, or, as 
he exprefs’d it, about his heart, of a feeblenefs of his 
limbs, a diaking of his hands, and a condant drought. 
That notwithdanding thefe ailments he went daily, 
till a week before he died, when he grew very weak, 
and more feveriih, had fometimes profufe fweats, and 
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