**75** Chap. 6.

Barker comments on Cape Elizabeth in 1786–1812 and his visit there in March 1781, to call on the Rev. Ephraim Clark, aged fifty-five, with pneumonia requiring two bleedings. Clark had suffered frequent attacks of pulmonic inflammation which always yielded to bleeding. He continued to preach till the age of seventy-five, when he died of a pulmonic fever. Clark always carried a lancet with him on his parochial visits, as his parishioners were in the habit of being bled, in sickness and in health, as disease prevention. The remainder of this chapter deals with Barker’s patients from ages sixteen to sixty suffering with apoplexy, palsy, hemiplegia, paraplegia, and the apparent successful treatment of bloodletting. He is supported by excerpts on the subject by physicians such as Mathew Baillie and John Hunter; an article by John Collins Warren includes dissections.