The case of Miss Davies / [George Ogden].

  • Ogden, George (Surgeon)
Date:
[1752]
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Credit: The case of Miss Davies / [George Ogden]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    faid, Madam, you are in fo good a Way, that that there will be nothing for me to do but to come and look at you.' I do not find any Thing wanting, unlefs it be fome Cordial Ju¬ lep, to take a little of, now and then, to keep up your Spirits: To which fhe replied, Mr. Ogden has ordered me fome burned White- Wine, with a little Mace and Loaf-Sugar, which agrees with me very well; but, Dodtor, vhat keeps up my Spirits, is, that my Lip begins to mend fo fall when I began to fpit; the Ulcer was at lead: the Compafs of a Shil¬ ling, and do you not now fee how fmall it is ? Bring me the Patch-Box to look at it! for I de^ dare it mends fo fafl it furprizes me. In the Evening, about Eight o’Clock, I aN tended my Patient, and there met with Dr. Hays; I obferved to him, that Mifs Davies had not fpit near the Quantity, in the laft twenty- four Hours, as fhe had done before; and that it was my Opinion, the Spitting (without fome- thing more was done) would flop very foon. He faid, he thought it would come on again, and that there would be no Neceffity to do any Thing that Night. The next Morning I being obliged to go out of Town, waited upon Mifs Davies, foon after Six o’Clock; and in my Return called upon Dr. Hays in his Chamber, and told him, I had been to fee our Patient, but that fhe had not fpit any thing near the one Half of what fhe had