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lower belly were debilitated, lenient and ftrong purg- 
atives producing no irritation in the ftomach and in- 
teftines ; and clyfters, though repeatedly injected, were 
never repelled. The urine was emitted by drops 
only, and fometimes it would run off fuddenly in a 
deluge : his hearing, though not quite loft, was con- 
fiderably impaired ; he lay lethargic and dead almoft 
to every thing, though by pulling the arms and fhak- 
ing the body, by loud and frequent calling, by de- 
ftring him to extend his tongue, he would gape wide- 
ly ; and forgetting feemingly what had been faid to 
him, keep his mouth wide open, when the tongue 
might be feen quivering and retraced . Five weeks 
elapfed in this ftate of infenfibility, every thing he 
took was with voracity, but without relifh and with- 
out diftin&ion. About this time a new and dreadful 
iymptom began to threaten, the jaw feemed to be 
moved with difficulty, and liquids only could be pour- 
ed down ; the hypocondria were hard and diftended, 
and every effort to procure an inteftinal difcharge 
proved ineffectual, when very large eruptions of the 
miliary kind were fuddenly diffufed over the found 
parts. From that critical moment he perfpired freely, 
and had an eafy motion of the jaw ; his urine was 
rendered in a due quantity, and purgatives of the 
lenient kind eafily operated, the hypochondria were 
foft, and equal ; the difcharge from the eye, which 
hitherto had been acrid, was now copious and laud- 
able, the found eye had its motion, he could fee dif- 
tinftly, and feemed in other refpedts lenfible, when 
roufed from his ftupefa&ion : foon after he could bear 
to be moved from the bed to a chair without fatigue, 
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