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and enjoy a good night’s rest ; and the last time I saw her, she had 
walked about four miles without any inconvenience. _ 
CASE II. 
. Mr. B., aged thirty-six, of sedentary habits, and by profession a 
banker’s clerk, was seized about ten years ago, without any apparent 
cause, with palpitation on the left side of the thorax, which was 
followed by pain and a sensation of tightness and anxiety over the 
region of the heart; his pulse became irregular and intermittent ; 
his breathing, however, has not been to any great degree disturbed, 
and he has been able to take free exercise, and with some benefit. 
During the course of his illness he has had no cough, but has had 
occasional sighing. eety 
The digestive functions have been considerably impaired, the 
appetite bad, the bowels disordered, and an almost constant tendency 
to flatulence has been present. The nervous system has also been 
for some time under much derangement, marked by tremors in the 
hands, irritability of temper, disturbance of the mental powers, 
particularly of the memory, which has suffered a good deal in its 
integrity ; for some time past he has experienced a disinclination 
for exertion, and has gone through his business more as a matter of 
duty than of pleasure. His sleep has been disturbed and unrefresh- 
ing; and he has laboured under great depression of spirits, from the 
belief that his complaint, from the number of remedies he had tried 
without advantage, was incurable. 
Under these circumstances, and considering from the account he 
had given, that to attempt. a cure by the means usually employed 
in such cases, would only be a waste of time, and also in consequence 
of the success which had attended the previous trials made with the 
Veratria, it was determined at once to employ it in his case; and 
with this view he was directed to take a little opening medicine, a 
practice always necessary to be pursued during the time the Veratria 
is in use; and an ointment of the same strength as that applied in 
the preceding case, was ordered to be rubbed on, nightand morning, 
over the region of the heart. As the patient lived at some distance 
he did not present himself again until the end of a week, when he 
returned to announce that he was quite well. The palpitation and 
nervous symptoms had entirely vanished, and he was then in the 
enjoyment of the best health and spirits. I have seen him once 
nce that time, and he has not had the slightest return of his com- 
plaint. | . 
ue CASE III. 
Mrs. L., a lady thirty-six years of age, and of a spare habit of 
body, residing in Bristol, has been suffering for five years from 
palpitation of the heart, attended by considerable difficulty of breath- 
