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the physician repeated the dose, and when the pa- 
tient complained of great distress at the breast 
and said he was dying, the doctor assured him the 
medicine would soon get down, or operate as a ca- 
thartic. However, on the same evening, the pa- 
tient lost his reason and became convulsed, so that 
two men were required to hold him. To relieve 
which, the doctor forced down two more of his 
powders, and the patient, as was to be expected, 
grew worse, and. continued so until he expired. 
The doctor, who had thus terminated the dis- 
ease and the patient at once, was arrested and put 
upon trial for murder ; but the homicide proving 
a legitimate one from the want of sufficient evi- 
dence of malice propense, he was acquitted and 
set at liberty. etiad. 24s 
From the violence of its effects, and the dis- 
tressing nausea which it occasions, it is probable 
that the Lobelia will never come into use for the 
common purposes of an emetic, while other emet- 
ies can be obtained. It has however been found 
to exert a beneficial influence on particular diseas- 
es, and on this account is entitled to a place im 
the Materia Medica. Dr. Cutler, and a number 
of physicians in Essex county and elsewhere, have 
found benefit from its use in asthma, some in dos- 
es of a table spoonful of the saturated tincture, 
