Dr. hunter and Mr. Watson's Account , See. 609 
dium, or of the heart itfelf, at its anterior part, juft above 
the diaphragm. His cough was almoft inceflant in the 
night fince he had left off the ufe of opium, to which he 
had been long accuftomed. For feven or eight years, he 
faid, he believed he might have had twenty purging 
ftools in every twenty-four hours, from a complaint in 
his bowels, the principal feat of which he pointed out lb 
exactly in his emaciated ftate, that it was obferved at the 
time it muft be in the colon, where it pafles down on the 
outfide of the lower end of the left kidney. It was there- 
fore thought probable that there was contraction with 
internal ulceration of the gut at that place : and about 
three years ago, with this complaint, which always con* 
tinued in his bowels and left fide, he had a fiftula in ano, 
for which he was cut, and thereby cured of that diforder ; 
but from that time, he was always fenfible that the 
lower part of the reCtum remained in an awkward, un« 
eafy ftate, fo that it was difficult and painful to pafs a 
common glifter-pipe into it. 
His medical friends were of opinion, that no more 
could be done for him than to palliate, and to procure 
eafe and ileep. He returned to his opium, of which he 
took one grain twice a day; and at times was thereby 
much relieved and comforted. 
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