Wesley Corpus

Wed. August 1.--At half an hour after two in the morning, my disorder came with more violence than ever. The cramp likewise returned ; sometimes in my feet or hand, sometimes in my thighs, my side, or my throat. [had also a continual sickness, and a sensation of fulness at my stomach, as if it were ready to burst. I took a vomit; but it hardly wrought at all: nor did any thing I took make any alteration. Thus I continued all day, and all the following night; yet this I could not but particularly observe,--I had no headache, no colic, nor any pain, (only the cramp,) from first to last. Thur. 2.--Perceiving I gained no ground, but rather grew weaker and weaker, my stomach being drawn’ downward, so that I could not stand nor lie, but on my right side, I sent to Redruth for Mr. Carter, who came without delay. Here again I saw the gracious providence of God, in casting me on so sensible and skilful a man. He advised me to persist in the same regimen I was in, and prescribed no physic, i) 560 REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. . [Aug. 1753. except a small dose of rhubarb. But even this (as I expected it would) was thrown up again immediately. I was now well satisfied ; having had the best advice which could be procured ; though my disorder continued much as before. But about five in the afternoon it ceased at * once, without any visible cause. The cramp also was gone, my stomach was easy, and I laid down and slept till six in the morning.