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was on fire ; but after taking a dofe of nervous medicines, and I)iing put into the bath, he was loon freed from this, and paffed the rclt of the nighc tolerably well. At the time of fuch violent attacks the pulfe continued regular, but flill flower and fofter than ufual,

Tuefday. He complained mod of his toes and now and then burn- ing pains in the forehead.

VVednelday. This whole day it continued mo;l in the toes of the left foot; but in the evening the pain en the ftom'ach returned, which lanced to the left fide, Vv'itb dartings inwardly. He became fo uneafy and reftlefs, that 1 was obliged to add fome opium to the other medicines ; which anfwered very well.

Thurfday. The pains kept raoft in the toes of the left foot.

Friday. Nothing particular, ex- cept his feeling, with (harp pain, a fpark (a? he called it) fly out of his right check, in the fame way, he faid, as that, which buril on his Ihouldcr, but much lefs. He per- ceived no pain in that part before this; nor any thing after, befides a forenefs, which Lifted for fome days. Hitherto he had been kept in a continual fweat : his appetite was greater than his allowance ; his digeilion good ; and his relt in- different. From this time he was not attacked with any violent fymp- toms, and could be quiet though he did not fweat.

On Sunday 'he began to get out of bed, but was often feized with glowing pains, fuddenly afrefting different parts of the body, which feldom continued an hour in one part, but fliifted from place to place : thefe he was troubled with in a lefj degree even long after he went abroad.

Bv care and watchfulnefs the violence of the fymptoms were kept under; and by the ufc of antidotes for poifon*: of the nature of what he received this from, the difeafe was overcome, and the patient re- covered his perfcdt health and flrcngth.

j4 remarkable cafe of the rjicacy of the bark in a mor'ification. In a letter to William U'atfon, M. D. F. R. 5. from Mr. Richard Grin- c/all, Surgeon to the London Hof- piial. Read before the Royal So- ciety, Dec. 8, 1757.

JuJIin friars, Dec. 7, 1757. S I R,

THE following cafe, being ve- ry fjngular, has induced me to lay it before the Royal Society. Although numerous inftdnces are related in the records of medicine, of the great danger in interrupting nature in her operations, there is not one (fo far as I know) in which more violent and extraordinary ef- fe<fts hnve been produced than in the following.

It may happen alfo, that this in- flar.ce may be of fervice in afcer- taining the virtue of the medicine in intermittents, when in the hands of men of judgment.

On the 28th of June, 1757* Mary Alexander, of the parilh of Whitechapel, aged 31 years, was brought into the London hofpital, having a mortification in both hands, which recched about an inch and a half above the wril^s. All her toes, and about an inch of one foot beyond the lall joint, were mortified ; her nofe was alfo intire- ly deftroyed by a mortification ; and all thefe happened at the fame lime. L'pon inquiry into the caufe § of