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imagined it was mixed with blood ; but, upon a careful 
examination of it, found I was miltaken. When the 
vomiting was over, the nurfe gave him a little more of 
the mint infufion; and, foon after, he fell into a found 
lleep, which continued more than an hour. In the 
evening he was hot and uneafy, complaining of third, 
and a pain in his head; his pulfe was increafed, and his 
Ikin felt dry. The wound had made a prodigious dif- 
charge, which I oblerved always to increafe, in propor- 
tion, as the bowels were more or lefs loofened by the 
medicines he was taking; and, from the violent efforts 
of the abdominal muffles in the time of his vomiting, 
moft of the Hitches in the wound were broken, fo that 
you might plainly fee into the cavity of the abdomen . 
After dreffing the wound, twelve ounces of blood were 
taken from the arm, and the anodyne draught was given 
to him foon after. 
Off. iff, I learnt, from the people about him, that 
for a few hours, after he had taken the opiate , he lay 
compofed; but, foon after mid-night, he awaked in great 
hurry and confufion, complaining of his ftomach and 
bowels, accompanied with convullive twitchings of the 
tendons ; and that, about five o’clock this morning, he 
brought up another large quantity of bile, which gave 
him great relief; for afterwards he lay perfectly eafy, 
and got between two and three hours deep. At nine 
o’clock, when I made my morning vifit, I found him 
much refrefhed, and without any kind of complaint. 
His pulfe was full, but much Headier than it had been 
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