Medical transactions / Royal College of Physicians of London.

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    his head, and complained foon after of a weight at his ftomach, attended with a ftcknefs, and a bitter tafte in his mouth: thus he had continued for fome days with a fever; and I found him on the 19th of Sept. 1772, feverifh, languid and very fick at times, with a difagreeable bitter tafte in his mouth; no emetick having been ventured on to remove the caufe of his prefent diforders, which appeared, to me to be chiefly owing to foulnefs in the ftomach and primse vise; I ordered pulv. rad. ipecac, gr. ij. and waited the operation;—it puked him prefently, and brought away a large quantity of vifcid bilious matter, and, without giving him the leaft uneafinefs, relieved him greatly: I left him, with directions to Mr. Arnold, to repeat the Ipecac, gr. ij. pro re nata: it was repeated three times that day, and feveral times the day or two following; and his fever went off, and his health was