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vomiting, I left the house. About thirty hours 
afterwards I called to see this patient, and with 
much surprise found that the quantity I had 
given her had continued to operate by emesis 
and catharsis ever since. She was, however, 
very little exhausted, and there was nothing of 
cramp either on the stomach or extremities which 
so often distress those who are too severely 
vomited. About this time there ‘was a cessation 
of vomiting without the assistance of remedies, 
Two days afterwards this woman told me she had 
not been as well as she then was for a number 
of years. The powerful vomiting produced a 
considerable degree of dizziness, but this went 
off in the course of twenty four hours. I had 
quite despaired of vomiting this patient with the 
Euphorbia ipecacuanha. In no instance after- 
wards was this medicine more than half as long 
in producing vomiting as it was in this case. 
Case Wil. A girl of about eighteen years of 
age, whose manner of living was similar to that 
of the person mentioned in the preceding case, 
applied to me foran emetic; I gave her thirty 
grains of the Euphorbia ipecacuanha, and told 
her to take half of this quantity, and if it did not 
operate in half an hour, she might take. the re- 
mainder. Contrary to my injunctions ‘she took 
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