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rowing Vessels which I can man out of these future
Sailors. My Shipbuilding and almost every thing else that
depended on me has stood still for near these 6 weeks.
I have been very ill during that time and though I now
am far out of all danger I am still obliged to keep
my room. I had first a cold & slight fever, then
a pain in my right side which (as I had many simptoms
which made me believe my blood was in a bad state)
induced me to be blooded. my blood thicker & blacker than
ever I saw blood before. I let run two soop plates full
and then as I was near fainting the Surgeon stopt it.
Since that my side swelled as if I had strained myself
but the acute pain went away. I have been taking
medicine near 30 dozes of Sulphur, and for a long time 5 or 6 tumblers of a decoction of to purify my blood and at the same time I keep
Sasafras & Sasaparilla every day a strict diet. One day when I thought I might begin to strengthen
myself I eat a very little Fish and in the course of the day drank
three very small dishes of chocolate: on the evening the pain was so great
in my side that I could not keep from crying out every minute:
all night I had no sleep and it was not till the night following
that I had any ease.
Octr 31st. I cannot say I am as yet recovered,
The Swelling at my side from which my Surgeon expected there would come away above a pint
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Samuel Bentham |
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