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fame fpace of time, the mercury arofe exadlly the fame 
as in the laft trial, but my pulfe beat only fixty-five 
which was one ftroke lefs, and three fewer than it 
had done before I took the camphire. 
The next day, having found that the mercury arofe 
nineteen degrees in five minutes, by the heat of my 
ftomach j and that my pulfe beat feventy-feven in a 
minute, I took E)ij of camphire in a little of the fy- 
rup of palerofes: immediately after fwallowing it, I 
felt a fenfation in my mouth Something fimilar to that 
occafioned by ftrong peppermint-water, but much 
more difagreeable j ten minutes after I had taken it I 
applied the thermometer to my ftomach ; in five mi- 
nutes the mercury arofe eighteen degrees, which was 
one degree lefs than it had done before I had taken 
it. My pulfe now beat only feventy, whereas before I 
took the dofe it had beat feventy-feven : five and 
twenty minutes after I had taken it, I applied the 
thermometer again, and the mercury arofe the fame 
as at the laft trial, but my pulfe had increafed from 
feventy to feventy-feven, the exa<ft number whicly 
it had beat before I took the camphire : foon after 
this, my head grew fo very giddy that it was with 
great difficulty I could walk through the room. 
In this condition, I had an inclination to breathe 
the frefh air, opened the window and looked over 
into the ftreet, where every thing appeared to me 
in the utmoft tumult and confufton ; feeling myfelf 
in danger of tumbling from my ftation, I fhut the 
window and daggered from it to bed, threw myfelf 
down upon it, and having a book with me, endea- 
voured to read, but had no diftindt idea of any one 
fentence, and far lefs could I connect two or more of 
them together fo as to comprehend the meaning of the 
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