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Lord Dalzells Case

Lord Dalzell was seiz'd with violent vomiting
about the 20.th Ocober last, by which his health
was much impaired, altho he walk'd about, but ----
much emaciated and an apparent stupor ----
with feebleness prevailed. Perspiration stopt and
the skin dried, attended with an excessive
thirst - Dr Gilchrist in Dumfries ordered a ----
warm Bath and said he should have taken
his Bed sooner, which he did, with most of
the bad simptoms attending a fever, the ---
pulse high about a hundred for a long time
--- Roving incoherent and seemingly in much
danger - His Spirits and Breast being greatly
depressed all the time - was ordered by Dr.
Gilchrist to take tincture of Bark with Columbo
root, the first relief however was from two ---
severe Blisters on the thighs, which so much

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abated the bad simptoms that soon after other ---
Blisters were applied to his Legs, which quite
removed the fever; and by continuation of
the Bark in substance and exercise he gradually
recovered to a pretty good state of health, --
having no more of the bilious vomiting
-- After the bad simptoms were removed --
and before the recovery, a most violent ---
pain with swelling of the feet, an appearance
of the rheumatic kind long continued,
not yielding much to any outward
applications or fomentations - About a
month ago he was again seized with a
violent diarhea, which reduced him much
and he still continues in a feeble state --
-- His legs from ancle to mid thigh quite
numb, often a violent pain in the kidneys
scorbutic spots upon the legs, often a shivering

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and cannot bear the Extremes of heat or
Cold. --

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Lord Dalzell's
Case
1782
March. 1782.
V. XIII p 339