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This method finmeded beyond what mold have

been imagined ; infomuch that it was obfervable,
even by the attendants on this gentleman, that his
mind came evidently more and more to itklf afiet
every dok and in the evening, after he had taken
fix drachms, his urine grew thick, and dropt a late-
ritious fcdimcnt ; and, excepting the weaknefs natu.
rally confiquent on loch violent emotions as he had
ondergone, both of mind and body, he was as well
as ever he had been in his life. He hath repeated
the bark at proper intervals, as is ohm! aftcr inter-
mittent fevers, and continues to this day perfadly
well.
The ufe of the bark in the molt irregular inter-
mittent diforders, is very happily fo well known in this
ifland, that it might perhaps have been thought need-
kfs to have recited any cafe merely in confirmation of
this pradice: and Iam too well aware of the infuthei.
envy of every thing, but a number of fads on which
to found any philofophical truth, to prefume to reit
any thing on one fingle inftance only. But the cak
above related I. of fo very extraordinary a kind, as
to make it worthy of being mentioned, both on its
own account, snit for that analogy, which being
found by experience to fubfift between difnfes, af-
fords the fared method of rcafoning on pradkal
fubjetts. The two remarkable circumflances of this
cafe are, the delirium's coming on, and continuing,
without any exacerbation of the pale ; and the
batIt's proving fo fpeedy and effeetual a remedy, alto'
given at a time, when there was no appearance of any
remillion of the fymptom, which it was intended to
remove. It hath been thought, that a quick pulfeZ

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