4414 EUPHORBIA IPECACUANHA, 
morning after it was taken, I learned that the 
medicine had produced a gentle purging, pre- 
ceded by a considerable degree of nausea, but 
that there had been no vomiting. 
“@ase I. The next fair opportunity which 
occurred for experiment was in the case of a 
female about thirty seven years of age. This 
woman, for a considerable portion of’ her life, had 
suffered from syphilis; nothing remained now, 
however, specifically of this kind, excepting the 
marked effects of a constitution. shattered by 
disease. I gave her at first ten grains of the 
Euphorbia ipecacuanha, and in twenty minutes, 
no signs of yomiting occurring, I gave her eight 
grains more, and kept adding to the quantity, 
which she had taken, until it amounted in the 
whole to forty grains. I remained by this patient 
until vomiting commenced, which was precisely 
thirty five minutes after the exhibition of the first 
ten grains. As the influence of the mind, in 
contemplating the effects of an emetic, will often 
induce its more speedy operation, I diverted the 
patient’s attention as much as possible, that no 
consequences might ensue, but such as were 
produced by the specific action of the medicine. 
As soon as I ascertained that this Euphorbia 
ipecacuanha was likely to produce effectual 
