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him mäny Remedies. At my return out os the Country oti FriiUy at -6 atNight, his Heat »'as very grear, and his Tttlse very high, and intermittedthen on botb JVrists, and if any thing werc ostercd him to Drink , Standingor Sitting , he Started as if his Head would have fallen backwards oft hisShoiil-ders, but when Laid upon his Pillow, cotild (iho’ with great dtfficulty ar.duneasineß,) now and then get down a Spoonful. He lookcd then veryThin and Gastly, and siem’d Shy or Afraid of every Body that came sud-denly near him, telling them that they Stiflcd him, or ftopt or hindred hisBreath in coming so hastily to him. His Reason was all along very good,and fas some oblerv’d) heiter khan in his Health : his Foice was broken andimperfect, as theirs whose Tongue and other Organs of Speech are growingParalytical. 1 faw him again at io that Night when all Symptoms weregrowing worfe; yet he conld then Walk out of one Chamber intoanother,with very little heip, but between 12 and i next Morning he Died, with-out any Convulfive Motions, Sighs or Groans ; as if in a Moment therehad been a total Paralysis.

From this Relation it’s most: Obsirvable. i. That as the Farns, (whichwere like thosc in the Rl.eumatism,') abafed,. the Paralyßs and Feaver increa-scd. 2. As the Feaver increafed, the Jntermijßon ot the Pulse grew morcfrequent, tho’ the Pulse were much Stronger ; but why it Intermitted first onbut oneßde, is not easily accounted for. z. That the Imperfectum of Foice,as well as the Dißiculty of Swalhwing were the Effects of the Paralyßs , mayprobably be allowed, and be a sitisfactory Reason, why the Person Dr.

Lister mentjons, could not ufe the Quill which was given him to Such with.

4. That his thin Gastly Afpect, the Defect of Spirits and Tonic Vigour,

(if 1 may so call it,) was from a Paralytical Original, is not unreasonableto conjecture, f. That the Paralyßs chiefly affected the Muscles of the Headand Upper Parts, may be partly coftected from his inability to hold his HeadSteady at the approach of any Liqucr ; the Fear thence anfing, causing himto Start, and his Head so to fall backwards, as if it would fall off his Shoul-ders. 6 . And that his Lower Parts were less affected, is probable, because,

2 or 3 Hours before he Died, he could Walk out of one Chamber into ano-ther, eyen when his Foice was hardly intelligible.

XXXVIf In the Year 1688, there was brought to us for Cure a Child ^chlu ni: :,j<.of about 3 Years of Age, who had just then reeeived a large Wound uponthe Maßet er Mufcle by the Bite of a Mad Dcg. The Wound we treated „/'137. p. «Iwith Digestives for some timc, Sutures were forborn, though otherwiso ne-ceffary, that the Sanation thereof being defer’d, the Contracted Fenommight have the freer Egrefs thereat. There was in fhovt time discharged avery laudable Pus, and the Wound Incarned as fast as we could deftre. Inabout 3 Wecks time we had Incarned, and brought overa very firm andftcmly Cicatrix ; and in about 2 Days alter Cicatriz,mg the Wound, theChild was seiz’d with a Fevcr , a diförderly Pulst, and Palpitation of theHeart : The Night enfuing he grew Delirious, and the Sucaeding day theMaltgnity had made so virulent an Impression upon the Animal Spirits, as

Voi.ni. oo did