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ter, drove the edge of the plate forcibly between 
two of his ribs. He was immediately very ill from 
the hurt j fick, and in great pain. His mother 
alfo informed us, that fhe thought the palpitation 
was more violent about a. fortnight after the acci- 
dent, than when we examined him. The day af- 
ter the blow, they took eight ounces of blood from 
his arm : about three weeks after that, they again 
opened a vein, but got not much from it : and 
three weeks from thence, they let him blood the 
laft time, to the amount of eight ounces. He be- 
gan to have a cough foon after the hurt, with fre- 
quent fpittings of blood in very large quantities ; 
and had nodturnal fweats almoft the whole fix 
months, during which he furvived the blow. A- 
bout four months after it, there came, over the 
umbilical region of the abdomen, a livid appear- 
ance like a mortification : but it went off gradual- 
ly, and at length vanifhed. He had nothing par- 
ticular in his habit of body or ffate of health ; fave 
that, about a year before this accident, he had been 
crippled with the rheumatifm. He was, when we 
law him, a good deal reduced ; but had not a hec- 
tic nor confumptive look. 
On the day of his death, Mr. Cowell opened 
him ; when, to our great furprize, we found no 
aneuryfm, nor the leaft extravafation of blood 
either from the cavities of the heart or the large 
veffels. But on the left ventricle of the heart, near 
it’s apex, there was a livid fpot, almoft as large as 
a half-crown piece, bruifed and jelly like ; the part 
underneath being mortified quite to the cavity of 
the ventricle. From thence upward, toward the 
auricle. 
