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This fal catharticum amarum came from England ; 
and whether home vitriolic acid had been ufed in 
making it, I do not know j but it is likely there 
had. 
From the firfl: of Auguft he took no medicines j 
the attacks were grown much lefs frequent and (lighter: 
only he often felt in the night time like the ftroke of 
an electrified body. 
Auguft 13. He was awaked this night by pain, as 
if urning irons had been clapped to the in Tides of 
hi > legs, with anxiety and a fenfe of tremor over 
the whole body. I was fent for, but his complaints 
were greatly diminifhed before I came I found his 
pulle very quick, irregular and fmall: but I could 
find no new caufe for the return of his complaints. 
He had after this fome fmaller attacks : but in the 
night of the 23d he was feized with a violent fit of 
the fame fort, with ftretchings, and as it prickling 
fparks were flying continually out of the fkin. He 
had palpitation of the heart, and complained of the 
want of breath: his left fide turned cold, and his 
right fide grew hotter. When I came he was grown 
better, but the pulfe hill very fmall, frequent and 
inordinate. 
24th, He was again attacked in the fame manner 
in the night time, and it alfo went off in the fame 
manner : but he now grew feverifli and kept his bed 
fome days. 
By the word flretchings I mean the ftretching of 
his body and limbs by a flow and gentle convullion 
of the extenfor mufcles 3 for in all the attacks I never 
obferved the flexores any way affieCted. — His feel 
ings were frequently fo odd that, he faid, he could 
not defcribe them. He often felt as if his left lide, 
from 
