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His fever, however, did not immediately leave 
him; bat this we attributed to his having caught cold 
from being incautioufly uncovered, when the win- 
dow was open, and the weather extremely fevere ; for 
a cough, which had troubled him in fome degree 
from the beginning, increafed, and he became like- 
wife very hoarfe for feveral days, his pulfe, at the 
fame time, growing quicker : but thefe complaints 
alfo went off, and he recovered, without any return 
of the bad fymtoms above-mentioned. 
I am, Reverend Sir, 
Your obliged humble fervant, 
\V m Hey. 
P. S. 
October 29, 1772. 
Fevers of the putrid kind have been fo rare in this 
town, and in its neighbourhood, fince the com- 
mencement of the prefent year, that I have not had 
an opportunity of trying again the effects of fixed air, 
given by way of clyfter, in any cafe exadly fimilar 
to Mr. Lightbowne’s. I have twice given water fa- 
turated with fixed air in a fev^r of the putrefcent 
kind, and it agreed very well with the patients. 
To one of them the aerial clyfters were adminiftred, 
on account of a loofenefs, which attended the fever, 
though the flools were not black, nor remarkably 
hot or fcetid. 
Thefe * 
