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the whole at a single draught. In fifteen minutes 
her attendants told me she began to vomit, and 
continued to throw up, at intervals, smartly for 
five hours, and was purged seven or eight hours 
more. For some time after this she complained 
much of dizziness. 
Case 1V. As I had found, in the first trial, 
that ten grains of the Euphorbia ipecacuanha 
failed to produce vomiting, I tried the same 
dose upon another subject, which was a woman 
of about forty eight years of age, to determine if 
so small a quantity would produce vomiting. 
In about fifteen or twenty minutes after the 
medicine was received into the stomach, it began 
to operate. After she had vomited three times, 
it commenced purging, and produced. three or 
four evacuations, ‘This woman did not complain 
of any dizziness, as those did in the two preced- 
ing cases, ) 
Case V. A woman about thirty one years of 
age took fifteen grains of the Euphorbia ipecacu- 
anha ; in seventeen minutes it began to operate, 
and vomited the patient every few minutes, until 
the operation amounted to five or six times, and 
afterwards a moderate purging ensued. |The 
operation, in this case, was more satisfactory than 
any preceding ones, as it effectually evacuated 
