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fome the bladder itfelf partook of the diforders, that 
were obferved in the great inteflines. 
A few bleedings at firft, cooling liquors, as whey, 
chicken-water made into an emulfion, emollient cly- 
llers often repeated, and paregorics given properly, 
and in Imall quantities, were the mod: fovereign re- 
medies for this difeafe. Purgatives were generally 
hurtful. ^ 
However, ipecacoanha fucceeded with fome; and 
an Englidi pupil^ of mine, Mr. George Rofs, made 
very fuccefsful trials with bolufes of vitrum antimonii 
ceratum. 
Whenever blood was taken away in an over great 
quantity, the patient in three or four days fell into 
the agonies of death. Anodyne drops given too 
freely, inftead of quieting, occafioned reftlelTnefs, 
and increafed the fever and inflammation. 
I was myfelf druck with this difeafe, as if with 
lightning, and pafled, in a few hours, from a good 
date of heath into a finking and infendbility, which 
indicated a gangrene coming on, and the utmod 
danger. Two bleedings, clofe upon one another 
brought me to myfelf j but my infendbility was fud 
ceeded by the ufual colic and flux, which was the 
principal didemper i then one half ounce of diaco- 
dium freed me from this painful and dangerous con- 
dition, as fpeedily as the infedted air had thrown it 
upon me. 
In the following feafon, and even in the year 1744, 
when this didemper prevailed no longer as an epide- 
mical one, there happened fome very extraordinary 
circumdances. ^ 
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