The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in particular of the diaphoretic kind, the working of which is thought to re¬ quire a great ftrength of conftitution to fuppart, had fo little effedt on me, that Mr. Ward declared it was as vain to attempt fweating me as a deal board. In this fituation I was tapped a fe- - cond time. I had one quart of water lefs taken from me now than before but I bore all the confequences of the operation much better. This I attri¬ buted greatly to a dofe of laudanum pre- fcribed by my furgeon. It firft gave me the moil delicious flow of fpirits, and afterwards as comfortable a nap. The month of May, which was now begun, it fee me d reafo liable to expedt would introduce the fpring, and drive oft that winter which yet maintained ita footing on the flage. I refolved there¬ fore to vifit a little houfe of mine in the country, which (lands at Ealing, in the county of Middlesex, in the belt air, I believe, in the whole kingdom,, and far fuperior to that of Kenfington Gravel- c 5 Pits J,