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II. A Letter from Daniel Peter Layard, 
M \ D. and F. R. S. to the Prefident, con- 
taining an Account of the Cafe of a young 
Lady who had an extraordinary Impoftume 
forjned in her Stomach. 
SIR, 
Read May 3.^ ■ ’^HE Communication of the follow- 
1750 _X ing Cafe, which I have the Honour 
of laying before you, will not, I hope, be deemed 
an affuming Step in me: My only Defign is, in Obe- 
dience to your Commands, to give you as exadt an 
Account as I am able of this unexpected Cure j and I 
fhall efteem it the higheft Pleafure, fhould any Benefit 
accrue from this Obfervation. Give me leave to 
fubfcribe myfelf, with, all poflible Refpcdt, 
y 1 r, 
Dean-Jlreet , Feb. 17. 
1749 30. 
Tour mofi humble 
and mofi obedient Servant , 
D. P. Layard. 
M I S S a young Lady of feventeen Years of 
Age, being at a Boarding-School about three 
Miles from this City, was, on the 28th of November 
174,5”. taken with profufe Sweats, which, after fome 
Continuance, and weakening her much, were (top- 
ped by means of faline Draughts , made with Elixir 
Vitiroli . 
On 
