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recovered, that I defired him to /hut the win- 
dows, and threw myfelf backward on the bed, where 
I lay a few minutes very quiet, after which, in a fort 
of frenzy, I flarted up and fat upon the fide of it, x 
made fome efforts to vomit, but evacuated nothing ; 
that I then threw myfelf back again, fell into flrong 
convulfions, foamed at the mouth, fhrieked with 
great violence, flared dreadfully at, and endeavoured to 
grafp and tear every thing around me. This outrage- 
ous fit was fucceeded by a calm, fomething fimilar to 
fainting, during which time a relation was fent for, 
who came between three arrd four o’clock ; when he 
fpoketo me, I awaked, as I thought, from fleep, and 
knew him, though almoft intirely infenfible to every 
other objed. Soon after, came Dr. Cullen, who had 
been fent for alfo; when he had felt my pulfe, which 
beat one hundred in a minute, he ordered me to be 
blooded; but as it is probable that natural antipathies 
will remain when every other fenfation is nearly loll, I 
obflinately refufed to undergo this operation, on ac- 
count of an unfuperable averfion I have to if. All this 
time, no perfon knew any thing of my having taken 
the camphire, nor did I recoiled: any thing of it my- 
felf; and though I was recovered fo much from the 
fit I have juft now defcribed, as to know every one 
about me, I neither knew where I was, nor what 1 did. 
As I felt a very uncommon fenfation of heat, 
I got violently out of the bed, and threw myfelf 
on the floor, the cool nefs of which was very agreeable 
to me ; upon which Tome cold water was brought, and 
my hands and face bathed in it ; this proved flill more 
agreeable, and in fome degree quieted a tremor which 
had feized on every part of my body. At this time. 
Dr.. 
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