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arms, and efpecially in his right hand; he became 
fick at ftomach, and felt a trembling over his whole 
body. He ftrove to get the better of this attack, and, 
walked fiowly about for fome time, but turned pale 
faint, and fell down. He foon recovered again, and, 
Hill thinking to mafter the illnefs, drank two or three 
g affes of wine, which he vomited up again. This 
began at noon, and at fix in the evening 1 found him 
in bed frighted and fweating. His pulfe was then 
regularbut quick : hewas fick at ftomach,with anxiety. 
I ordered him fome faline draughts, and plenty of 
thin warm liquors. In the night he fleeped but in- 
differently: his complaints were not continual, but re- 
turned by fits, with ftretchings of the limbs, tremor, 
and ftarting of the tendons over the whole body, and 
when he began to flumber he was difturbed with 
frightful dreams of fire. 
27th, Early in the morning he obferved many 
fmall purple fpots on his hands. I found them juft, 
like purple petechia : the moft on his right arm, and 
perceptible through the thick fkin of the palm of that 
hand. There were alfo fome on the other arm and 
legs, and fome of a deeper colour on the thighs, but 
very few on the reft of the body. As his pulfe was 
now grown quicker, I fufpedted this to be a petechial 
fever : but there being no fevers of that kind then in 
town, and befides, as 1 could not reconcile the other 
circumftances, I remained undetermined and much 
perplexed by all thefe appearances. About four in the 
afternoon he was again feized with great anxiety, and 
pricking burning pains in the feet : the toes were extra- 
ordinary red, and he had frequent ftretchings. Thefe 
went almoft off in a few hours. 
28th, 
