172 Dr. SCOTT on AJlhmatic Fin. 
gone off; and at the writing of this letter, Auguft j 
no/ve’t V > U§h 1112 1S n ° W “ VCry S° od he alth, ihe has’ 
lour Ref 6 T Ve f hCr Ufual flelh > length, and co- 
lom. Befides the abovementioned medicines, ihe took 
ftven .lw et ; meS; ^ 3 few an « Iyne d ™ghts with 
, f , S 1 ‘ I0ps ot laudanum.', but it could not be 
-cited that ihe got any benefit from them, except that 
cafe She ITT tol 'S httheo11 ot almonds gave hera little 
or five / ^ght appearance of the menfes about four 
or five days after the accident happened, although it was 
tn only about the middle of the ufual period ; coughed 
P at times iome fmall quantities of blood, and hacfalfo 
ome mixed with her ftools and urine. The reafon why 
toe laudanum the molt effeftual and univerfal anti-fpaf- 
modic, was ufed in inch fmall quantities, was, that it was 
known before that, fire could never bear above eight or 
with d vT f r“t aS ^ C ° mmon clofc ufed to affel her 
her he'u C &c t f 1S * S iddinefs a " d pain in 
n > f ’ t0 f0 S reat a degree, that for fome years 
part, fire neither would take, nor durit her huiband ad- 
accident’h ^ t0 ^ Af the time f be above 
ent happened, file was neither with child, nor had 
bad any foi fome years before. 
1 he above efibdts of ipecacoanba , I believe, very fel- 
Uom happen, and no doubt ariib from fome peculiarity 
of confhtution. Medical writers, at leaft as far as 1 can 
recollect 
