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Wednesday Feb 2
Called at night to see
negro Frank; bright mulatto, belonging to
Miss Cash; well grown
was complaining last night but ploughed all day
yesterday; woke up late in the night with
excruciating pain in right side could not
fetch a long breath vomited a good deal soon became insensible
found him so Pulse 108 to 112; surfaces
moist insensible; sometimes when roused
with great difficulty, makes answer to the point
Breathing irregular
Brochial respiration very distinct over the
posterior part of the lower half of right
lung
I put on 8 cups over said place; drew
8 or 10 ounces of blood thus; followed with
a large Blister Presc 2 grs calomel
every 2 hours with wineglassful of Boneset
tea, & [Zi] of an equal mixt. comp. syr scill.
& Spts. nitri dulc Began this at 11 1/2 P.M.
at 1 1/2 a.m. I was awakened by the tiding
that he would take nothing else; they cd not
make him swallow anything no arousing
him at all I opened a vein in the