Mr. anderson’s Account , See. 5^ 
on experience to purfue, and therefore were obliged to 
palliate the fymptoms, from the analogy they bore to 
thole that occur in other difeafes. From a fuppofttion, 
that fome of the matter, which caufed the illnefs, might 
lie indigefted in the ftomach, Mr. patten, the furgeon, 
ordered fome warm water to he drunk, in order to make 
the patients vomit; which effedt it had with fome of 
them, and they were a little relieved by it. After the 
naufea had ceafed, he gave fome weak portable foup, as 
a diluent ; and for the moft troublefome fymptom, viz. 
the heat on the furface ot the body, he preferibed a lu- 
dorific julep, whereof the aftive ingredients were the 
antimonial wine and fpiritus minder eri . This, in fome 
meafure, had the deiired effeeft, as it brought on a breath- 
ing fweat, which, for the time it continued, abated the 
violence of the pains. No other medicines were ufed, ex- 
cepting fome purging falts, for preventing inflammation, 
in two or three, whofe mouths and throats had been 
more particularly affedled. Their diet confided chiefly 
of tea, fago, and portable foup. 
1 have avoided faying any thing about the manner in 
which the poifon operates, as the inftances have been too 
few, to draw any certain confequences from them. I 
would only obferve, that its action may be Inch, as to 
affedf and deprave fome of the organs of fenfation, with- 
out much irritating the firft paflages ; becaufe in all the 
patients the diforder of the ftomach and bowels had long 
ceafed before the other fymptoms went off. And I was 
confirmed in this opinion by a circumftance which 
afterwards 
