most but slightly
inflamed. From the right Lobes of the Lungs being so much wasted, I
suspected that the Patient had probably laboured long under some
Disorder of the Breast; but I could not from Enquiry obtain any
Information in this Particular; nor did he ever mention such a Thing
during the few Days he lived after being brought into the Hospital; he
said, he had only been ill for eight or ten Days before; but Soldiers
afflicted with chronic Distempers, when they are seized with violent
Symptoms, or acute Diseases, are apt to reckon the Beginning of their
Disorder, only from the Time they are taken ill in a violent Manner;
and never to take any Notice of their former Complaints.

Another Soldier, about the Middle of _February_, 1762, remained in
Quarters five Days after being taken ill with a Pain of the Breast,
and a Difficulty of Breathing; the sixth Day he was brought to the
Hospital in the Morning, and I saw him about eleven o'Clock; he then
had all the Symptoms of the true Peripneumony, attended with a strong
hard Pulse. He was immediately blooded as freely as his Pulse would
bear, had Blisters applied, and other Remedies used; notwithstanding
which, on the eighth Day from that Time, he began to throw up a
purulent Matter in great Quantity, attended with a constant hectic
Heat, and Fever; which sunk him so fast, that he died the tenth Day,
after he first began to expectorate.

On the 2d of _March_, a Soldier, of the Fifty-first Regiment of Foot,
was brought to the Hospital, with a violent Pain in the left Side, and
a great Difficulty of Breathing. Upon examining him, he told me, that
about two Years before he had had a violent Stitch in his left Side,
towards the lower Part of the Thorax; that ever since he had been
subject to a Difficulty of Breathing; and at Times to a Pain in the
Side; but that he had only been seized with the violent Pain and
Difficulty of Breathing he then complained of, about five Days before,
occasioned by catching Cold, on being billeted in a low, cold, and
damp House.--His Pulse was quick, the Pain of his Side and Difficulty
of Breathing so great, that he could not sleep, nor lie down, but was
obliged to sit constantly in an erect Posture; his Tongue was white
and furred, and he had had no Stools for three Days: He was ordered to
be blooded immediately; and to take a Dose of Salts; and his Side to
be rubbed with the _linimentum volatile_. 3d. His Breathing and Pain
of the Side were eas