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fhould be lime water and milk; that fhe fhould take 
as many millepedes every day, as her ftomach would 
bear, or (lie could get, that her body fhould be kept 
open by Rhubarb, or Magneda, as occadon required ; 
that Ihe fhould have an blue in her arm, and lofe 
fix or eight ounces of blood once in fix or eight weeks, 
if her pains continued. 
A good lady in the neighbourhood, whofe huma- 
nity is only to be equalled by her good fenfe, gene- 
roudy promifed to fee,- that fhe purlued this regimen, 
and from time to time give me an account of the 
fuccefs. 
I delired a leaf might be weighed, that I might 
afcertain the quantity of each dole, and found fhe 
took fifteen grains of the green plant three times in 
a day ; finding it agree with her ftomach, and that it 
eafed her pains, though it caufed a tingling to her 
fingers ends : fine encreafed the quantity. In the be- 
ginning of November fhe had a very large menltrual 
difcharge, which had not happened to her for many 
years before; the fchirrus was much lefTened, and her 
pains were confiderably abated. 
About the end of November fhe found her bread: 
more dwelled, and the pain more acute than it had 
been for fix weeks before, had a reftlefTnefs, giddi- 
nefs in her head, and weight over her eyes; the dif- 
charge of the ifTue flopped, and a violent humour 
came all round the orifice. As I had dedred a little 
blood might be taken away, if occaiion required it, 
fhe was bled about the lad: day of November, on 
which fhe fainted away, and afterwards had fainting 
fits two or three times in a day, great ficknefs at her 
domach, and fometimes bled at the node. On thele 
fymptoms 
