1 70 Dr. Scott on AJlh?natic Fits. 
Betwixt nine and ten o’clock in the evening, June 3, 
1775, h er hufband happening to have got a quantity of 
th zpulv. ipecacoanha home, without confidering opened 
it out, and put it into a bottle : his wife not being far off 
at the time, and then in perfect good health, imme- 
diately, almoft even before it was got quite into the bot- 
tle, called out that fhe felt the ipecacoanha affedl her 
throat; on which die was immediately feized with the 
dridture upon her bread: and difficulty of breathing. 
She was advifed to walk out into the air, to try if that 
would remove it ; but it had little or no eff'edt. She went 
to bed fome little time afterwards; was exceedingly ill 
all night; and betwixt two and three o’clock next morn- 
ing (June 4th) I faw her, when die was gafping for 
breath at a window, was as pale as death, her pulfe fcarce 
to be felt, and in diort feemed evidently to be in the ut- 
moft danger of fuffocation. She had feven or eight 
ounces of blood taken from her arm, her feet put into 
warm water, an anodyne draught with feven or eight 
drops of laudanum given her, and took frequently a ta- 
ble fpoonful of oil of almonds. None of thefe feemed 
to have the lead effedt : and die continued much in the 
fame way, with few or no intervals of eafe, till about nine 
o’clock that morning; when, being in a manner almoff 
exhaufted, die fell into a kind of difturbed deep, the diffi- 
culty of breathing with a wheezing noife dill continu- 
ing with little abatement. She dept fome little time, and got 
out of bed again about eleven o’clock that forenoon ; her 
breathing dill very difficult, and her eyes looked red and 
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