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4th, Very little difference; only now and then he was troubled with a glowing painful sensation immediatly under the skin, sometimes inone part of the body, sometimes in another, a spot about the bigness of a crown piece.
5th, Things much the same.
6th, The attacks slighter, with the same feelings.
7th, Very little change, but rather better.
Hitherto I was mostly an observator; and, not being forced by an absolute necessity, I did not chuse to load him, at an uncertainty, with many drugs. I had given him little more than absorbent nitrous powders: but now, as he had no fever, but was rather lax and weak, and his nervous system affected, I thought I might begin to give him things more powerful, and therefore ordered as follows:
| ℞. | Extract. Cortic. Peruvian drach. ij. |
| Aurantior. | |
| Gum. Ammoniac. | |
| Myrrh. ana drach. j | |
| Sal. Martis drach. ss. | |
| Syrup. Cortic. Aurant. q. s. F. Pillulæ singula gran. iv. deaur. sig. capeat mane et vesperi v Pillulas. |
Here, in prescribing, I had attention to the antipathy nature had shewn to iron, therefore took care the quantity in each dose should be very small, the Sal martis scarcely making two grains.
8th, He took a dose this night, was very restless, and greatly affected with all the former symptoms.
9th, He said, he felt this medicine struggling with the distemper within him; so swallowed, though with
