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to operate. A. surgeon in the U.S. army inform- 
ed mé that the soldiers had an expedient to ex- 
empt themselves from duty, by wearing a piece 
of tobacco under each armpit; until the most 
alarming symptoms of — illness ee in 
the whole system..:)) §) i028) oipigvom 
Dr. James Currie has. sian a ease of epi- 
lepsy cured by the external use of Tobaeco. A 
: cataplasm was applied to the stomach for’ several 
days about half an-hour before the expected. re- 
turn of the paroxysm. A violent impression was 
produced each time upon the system, the’ parox- 
ysm prevented and the diseased association 
effectually broken up. Two cases of. obstinate 
and dangerous intermittent’ were cured in’ the 
game manner by a decoction of half a drachm of 
Tobacco in four ounces of water, thrown up as an 
estan a short, = before the time of the 
jee ais enema “was ar recom- 
wedded in colic, nepliritic complaints, Sc. Of 
late years it has, been. extensively employed in 
strangulated hernia. In eases of this complaint 
where the taxis has -been ineffectually attempted 
and the usual auxiliaries have failed, an injection 
made by infusing half a drachm of Tobacco in 
eight ounces of beiling water’ for ten minutes, is 
