C 2° 1 
4th, Very little difference j only now and then he 
was troubled with a glowing painful fenfation im- 
mediatly under the {kin, fometimes inone part of 
the body, fometimes in another, a fpot about the big- 
nefs of a crown piece. 
5th, Things much the fame. 
6th, The attacks {lighter, with the fame feelings. 
7th, Very little change, but rather better. 
Hitherto I was moflly an obfervator; and, not being 
forced by an abfolute neceffity, I did not chufe to load 
him, at an uncertainty, with many drugs. 1 had 
given him little more than abforbent nitrous pow- 
ders : but now, as he had no fever, but was rather 
lax and weak, and his nervous fyftem affedted, I 
thought I might begin to give him things more pow- 
erful, and therefore ordered as follows : 
* 
Extradh Cortic. Peruvian, drach. ij. 
■ ' - Aurantior. 
Gum. Ammoniac. 
Myrrh, ana drach. j 
Sal. Martis drach. fs. 
Syrup. Cortic. Aurant. q. f. — F. Pillulas lingula; 
gran. iv. deaur. fig. capeat mane et vefperi v 
Pillulas. 
Here, in preferring, I had attention to the anti- 
pathy nature had {hewn to iron, therefore took care 
the quantity in each dofe fhould be very fmall, the 
Sal martis fcarcely making two grains. 
8th, He took a dofe this night, was very redlefs, 
and greatly affedted with ail the former fymptoms. 
9th, He laid, he felt this medicine ftruggling with 
the diftemper within him; fo fwallowed, though with 
great 
