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17th.—Since last report he has been improving, the pain in the 
seat of the infra- orbitary foramen has become less and. less severe; 
and he is at present quite free from it. He was ordered to use the 
Delphinia ointment if the pain should return. 
20th.—The pain has never appeared except at the point already 
mentioned. The same prescription to be continued, with this 
difference, that the frictions are to be confined as nearly as possible 
to the skin over the seat of the pain. | 
_23d.—The patient is better to-day than he has yet began ; there 
is still, however, a tendency to a recurrence of the pain; he was 
directed to discontinue the external use of the Delphinia, and in- 
stead of it, to rub a portion of the same ointment inside of the 
mouth, along the angle formed by the gum and cheek, as nearly as. 
possible to the situation of the infra-orbitary foramen, and to con- 
tinue the friction until the pain was removed, or as ‘long as the 
application could be borne. 
25th.—The friction occasioned no irritation in the mucous mem- 
brane; it gave rise, however, to a sensation of tingling, accom- 
panied with some degree of salivation, and the pain has almost dis- 
appeared. Yesterday the patient had no attack, but to-day it has 
slightly returned. He was ordered to use the frictions to the inside 
of the cheek and gum, when the pain showed itself, with the follow- 
_ ing ointment : 
K.—Delphinie OT. Xo. 
Axung. : - gi. M.ut fiat unguent. | 
March 11th. —The last prescription was not made use of, as the 
patient has continued to be quite well. The slight pain he experl- 
enced when last seen, disappeared of itself ; and with the exception 
of a little feeling of uneasiness, which lasted only a minute or two, 
he has had no symptom of his former disease. He has resumed 
his employment after an interval of three years —has exposed 
himself to drafts of cold air, and to all those causes which used 
formerly to bring on severe paroxysnis of pain, but up to this date 
(June 1835) he has not had the slightest appearance of a return. 
CHAPTER PEt. 
Medicinal Biagtoiymens of the Genus Aconitum, and its ‘lective 
Principle /Alconitine. 
Aconitum, Polyandria Trigynia, Linn. Ranunculaceex, Luss. 
Multisiliquex, Linn. Europe. 
The gras Jiconitum has been divided by De Candolle into four 
