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in which it differs from most or all other enteties. 
These articles, when they fail of producing vomit- 
ing, generally occasion a determination down: 
wards, and thus produce all the phenomena of ca- 
thartie medicines, This effect is also frequently 
produced when they have operated in their pecu- | 
liar way. But in no instance did this appear to 
be the case with the Hellebore. Some patients, 
indeed, said that it operated upon them: by stool 
very slightly—but on strict inquiry I did not 
think that the medicine had had any effect in this 
way, and that what was told me proceeded from a 
desire in the persons to attribute some sort of ef- 
feet to what had been given them. — 3 
- “In thé greater number of the cases, the: Helle- 
bore was longer before it produced vomiting than 
is the case generally with other emetics. It did 
not often operate in’less than three quarters: of an 
hour or ati hour=-but sometimes’ the interval was 
— to two or three Wourest-beithi in one case, 
noon, its effet were not welt deste baleen 
nine and. ten o’clock in the evening.» "This  tardi- 
ness int inifesting its effects/on the system cor- 
‘responds with’ what has’ been ‘observed with re- 
ise to — — ls | : 
