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tended again, in the evening; nor was I made acquainted with her indisposition, till the following day. On Monday morning, she commenced a letter to her much beloved friend Miss Tyler; but laid it aside, after writing four or five lines; and this last fragment of her writing, which her affectionate friend wished to possess as a sacred memorial of one, whom she held in no common esteem, bears marks of her indisposition, as it appears to be written in a less firm and even character than her usual letters. She afterwards took the walk, of which I have before made mention, to her esteemed neighbour Mrs. Rogers; and on her arrival there, she appeared fatigued and thirsty. She was exceedingly exhausted on her return home; and I was then informed of her illness. On feeling the pulse, I perceived she had a good deal of fever; but I apprehended no other serious consequences than such as usually proceed from a severe cold. She retired somewhat earlier than usual to rest; and I gave her a dose of James's powders, at the

same time desiring her to put her feet into warm water. This produced a copious perspiration; and the next morning, she seemed to be considerably relieved. Still the fever was by no means removed; I therefore repeated on Tuesday and the following day (for she was unwilling that I should call in our medical attendant) such medicines as appeared to me likely to remove her indisposition; and on Thursday she seemed to be so much better, as to need no further medicine. The pulse was good, and natural; she came down stairs, sat up the greater part of the day, and was exceedingly cheerful. She felt, however, towards evening, great weariness; and when I took leave of her at night, I perceived that her pulse had again very much quickened, and the fever had returned. She spent a restless night; and finding her much indisposed in the morning, I told her that, though I saw nothing alarming in her case, yet I did not think it prudent any longer to prescribe for her myself: and, after some hesitation, she consented to my

calling in our medical attendant. She had several times, in the course of the last two days, asked me if she was in danger; and seemed anxiously alive to every indication of our feelings, either by word or countenance; so that it was peculiarly necessary to proceed with caution to prevent alarm.

On feeling her pulse, Mr. T. Ives inquired whether she had been delirious during the preceding night. At this question she was evidently alarmed; and after telling him that her head had never been in the least affected, she asked him whether he thought she was in danger. On his smiling at her question, and assuring her that there was nothing serious in her case, she resumed her usual composure and cheerfulness. There was, however, something very unusual in her pulse, from the commencement of her illness. At various periods, in the progress of it, it was at the rate of from 130 to 150, and yet she never experienced the least delirium, nor had any local fixed pain. When, at a later period of her disease, Mr. Ives, the father of our medical

friend, first offered us the benefit of his extensive practice and well-known skill, in aid of the kind attentions of his son, he said, that on taking hold of her hand, he instinctively withdrew his finger from the frightful pulse.

After two days attendance of Mr. T. Ives, the disease seemed, a second time, to yield to medicine; and we had sanguine hopes that his patient would soon be convalescent: but after the greater part of a day had passed under encouraging prospects, she again relapsed; and the symptoms returned with unabated violence. It was then deemed expedient to use the lancet; and after the same period of two days, the pulse again became almost natural; and my beloved daughter, as well as ourselves, anticipated a speedy recovery; but our hopes were, a third time, disappointed; for after nearly another whole day's improvement, her pulse resumed its former rapidity. These intermissions in her malady confirmed me in the opinion I had entertained from her first relapse, that she was

labouring under the disease, with which several of her Lincolnshire friends had been recently afflicted, of whom we had lately heard, that they had had three or four attacks of what is there well known by the name of an intermittent: and I was the more disposed to draw this conclusion, from the fact of her having returned,last autumn, from Lincolnshire, with this disease upon her. I was therefore very sanguine in my expectations, that this illness would neither be fatal, nor of long continuance. In the former of these hopes, alas! I have been most afflictingly disappointed. The hand of death was upon my dear daughter, when the worst I feared was a lingering recovery from an intermitting fever. The malady however yielded, a fourth time, to medicine; and a fourth time it resumed its accustomed violence.

A fortnight had now nearly elapsed since she had been confined to the house. Her inquiries, during this period, were frequent, whether danger were apprehended; and the answers she received were always en

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