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EXTRAORDINARY SLEEPER.
was the first day of his coming out, he looked brisker
than ever he saw him in his life before; and upon asking
him whether the bed had made him sore, he assured the
gentleman, he never found that, or any other inconve-
nience ; and that he had not the least remembrance of any
thing that passed or was done to him all that while
He went again to his husbandry as he used to do be-
fore he slept, and remained well from that time till the
17th of August, 1697, when in the morning he com-
plained of a shivering and coldness in his back, he vomit
ted once or twice, and that same day he fell into his
sleeping fit again : Dr. Oliver going to see him, found
him asleep with a cup of beer and a piece of bread and
cheese upon a stool by his bed, within his reach; the
Doctor felt his pulse, which at that time was very regular,
and he also found his heart beat very regularly too, and
his breathing was easy and free. The Doctor only ob-
served, that his pulse beat a little too strong; he was in a
breathing sweat, and had an agreeable warmth all over
his body ; then the Doctor put his mouth to his ear, and
called him as loud as he could several times by his name,
pulled him by the shoulders, pinched his nose, stopped
his mouth and nose together, as long as he could without
choaking him, but to no purpose ; for all this time he did
not give 'the least sign of being sensible. The Doctor
lifted up his eye-lids and found his eye-balls drawn up
under his eye-brows, and fixed without any motion at
all; then the Doctor held under one nostril for a con-
siderable time, a phial with spirit of Sal Ammoniac, extract-
ed from quick-lime. Then he injected it three or four
times up the same nostril, and although he had poured into
it about half an ounce of this fiery spirit, it only made his
nose run and his eye-lids shiver and tremble a very little.
The Doctor finding no success with this, crammed that
nostril with powder of white hellebore, and staying some
time
EXTRAORDINARY SLEEPER.
was the first day of his coming out, he looked brisker
than ever he saw him in his life before; and upon asking
him whether the bed had made him sore, he assured the
gentleman, he never found that, or any other inconve-
nience ; and that he had not the least remembrance of any
thing that passed or was done to him all that while
He went again to his husbandry as he used to do be-
fore he slept, and remained well from that time till the
17th of August, 1697, when in the morning he com-
plained of a shivering and coldness in his back, he vomit
ted once or twice, and that same day he fell into his
sleeping fit again : Dr. Oliver going to see him, found
him asleep with a cup of beer and a piece of bread and
cheese upon a stool by his bed, within his reach; the
Doctor felt his pulse, which at that time was very regular,
and he also found his heart beat very regularly too, and
his breathing was easy and free. The Doctor only ob-
served, that his pulse beat a little too strong; he was in a
breathing sweat, and had an agreeable warmth all over
his body ; then the Doctor put his mouth to his ear, and
called him as loud as he could several times by his name,
pulled him by the shoulders, pinched his nose, stopped
his mouth and nose together, as long as he could without
choaking him, but to no purpose ; for all this time he did
not give 'the least sign of being sensible. The Doctor
lifted up his eye-lids and found his eye-balls drawn up
under his eye-brows, and fixed without any motion at
all; then the Doctor held under one nostril for a con-
siderable time, a phial with spirit of Sal Ammoniac, extract-
ed from quick-lime. Then he injected it three or four
times up the same nostril, and although he had poured into
it about half an ounce of this fiery spirit, it only made his
nose run and his eye-lids shiver and tremble a very little.
The Doctor finding no success with this, crammed that
nostril with powder of white hellebore, and staying some
time