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L. An Account of a Blow upon the Hearty 
and of its EffeSis : By Mark Akenfide, 
M. Z). F. R. S, and Phyfcia n to Bier 
Majefy. 
teen years of age, was brought to a confultation of 
the phyficians and furgeons of St. Thomas’s Hof- 
pital. His diforder was a palpitation of the heart; 
fo very violent to the touch, that we all concluded 
it to be an aneuryfm, and without remedy. He 
had a frequent cough. His pulfe was quick, weak, 
and uneven; but not properly intermitting. It was 
apparent that nothing could be done, farther than 
by letting blood in fmall quantities, and by the ufe 
of emollient pedtoral medicines, to leffen now and 
then, however inconliderably, the extreme danger 
to which he was continually fubjedt. He was taken 
into the hofpital that fame day, being Saturday; 
and treated according to what had been agreed up- 
on. But on the Tuefday morning following, he 
died, without any previous alarm or alteration. 
The origin of his complaint was a blow, which 
he had received fix months before, from the mailer 
whom he ferved, as waiter in a public houfe. The 
mafter had owned that he had pulhed him flightly 
on the left fide with his hand. The boy informed 
us that he himfelf was then carrying a plate under 
his arm; and that the blow or pufh, from his maf- 
N the nth of September, 1762, 
Richard Bennet, a lad about four- 
ter, 
