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tincture, of which he took a table-fpoonful every 
two hours in a cup full of cold water : he drank 
fometimes a little of the tinCture of rofes, but 
his common liquors were red wine and water, or 
rice water and brandy acidulated with elixir of 
vitriol : before drinking, he was commonly requeft- 
ed to rinfe his mouth with water to which a little 
honey and vinegar had been added. His loofenefs 
rather increafed, and the ftools were watery, 
black, and foetid : It was judged neceflary to mo- 
derate this difcharge, which feemed to fink him, 
by mixing a drachm of the theriaca Andromachi 
with each clyfler. 
2 1 ft. The fame putrid fymptoms remained, and 
a fubfultus tendinum came on : his ftools were more 
foetid ; and fo hot, that the nurfe affined me fire 
could not apply her hand to the bed-pan, imme- 
diately after they were difcharged, without feeling 
pain on this account : The medicine and clyfters 
were repeated. 
Reflecting upon the difagreeable neceflity we 
feemed to lie under of confining this putrid matter 
in the inteftines, left the evacuation fhould deftroy 
the vis vitee before there was time to correCt its 
bad quality, and overcome its bad effe&s, by the 
means we were ufing ; I confidered, that, if this 
putrid ferment could be more immediately cor° 
reCted, a flop would probably be put to the flux, 
which feemed to arife from, or at leaf!; to be en- 
creafed by it ; and the fames of the difeafe would 
likewife be in a great meafure removed. I thought 
nothing was fo likely to effeCt this, as the intro- 
duction of fixed air into the alimentary canal, 
L 1 2 which, 
