11. They use cordials, to keep the venom and the malignity of the disease from the heart 69 12. They apply pigeons, to draw the vapours from the head 77 13. The sickness declares the infection and malignity thereof by spots 83 14. The Physicians observe these accidents to have fallen upon the critical days 88 15. I sleep not day or night 96 16. From the bells of the church adjoining, I am daily remembered of my burial in the funerals of others 102 17. Now, this bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die 107 18. The bell rings out, and tells me in him, that I am dead 114 19. At last the physicians, after a long and stormy voyage, see land: They have so good signs of the concoction of the disease, as that they may safely proceed to purge 122 20. Upon these indications of digested matter, they proceed to purge 131 21. God prospers their practice, and he, by them, calls Lazarus out of his tomb, me out of my bed 138 22. The physicians consider the root and occasion, the embers, and coals, and fuel of the disease, and seek to purge or correct that 145 23. They warn me of the fearful danger of relapsing 152 _DEVOTIONS_ I INSULTUS MORBI PRIMUS. _The first Alteration, the first Grudging, of the Sickness._ I. MEDITATION.