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(whilfl; Infenlible) flept found for feveral hours ; and. 
whilft in that date of relaxation fetched her breath 
quite eafy, as fhe did every night after, when afeep, 
with a ferene pulfe, but always waked in exquifite 
pain, and in great agitations. 
In a few days I obferved her breatli to fmell very 
drong, and I made a prognodick, that nature (in 
order to expel her enemy) would form an abfcefs or 
apodemation in the lungs (as the only chance for her 
life) and would bring it up, by the fame channel it 
went down ; though 1 was not without apprehen- 
fions (as there was a prominence pointing outwards, 
and attended with great forenefs) that an empyema 
or collection of matter would be formed in the con- 
cavity of the bread, which, if it had made its way 
outwards, would (in all probability) have proved 
fatal. However, on the eleventh day from the ac- 
cident, fhe was of a fudden feized in the morning in 
bed, with a naufea, violent deknefs, and a cough, 
when the impodume in her lungs broke and difeharged 
itfelf by the mouth, with a large quantity of bloody 
matter, in which the portion of crud was happily 
entangled, about the bignefs of a large hazel nut, or 
filberd (being rather oblong than round) with a great 
quantity of dimy fubdance, in which it was inve- 
loped. After which, for an hour or more, fhe 
complained of violent pain and forenefs in the whole 
cavity of the bread, with great tremors j however 
they foon went off, and her fpeech returned imme- 
diately, and as perfeCl as before the accident, though 
languid ; for, during the major part of her illnefs, 
die could exprefs herfelf nootherwife, than by apply- 
ing one’s ear clofe to her mouth, and by giving her 
VoL. LV. G time, 
