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. 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.