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little repose, and that much disturbed. Her physician hap- 
pened to come in (Jan. 26,) while she was in a violent pare 
oxysm of coughing, resembling croup, and with imminent 
danger of suffocation ; her pulse as before, the back part of 
the mouth very much inflamed, and furrowed, as «it ee 
with ee vessels, injected with blood. 
ing been purged, poet acid was administered in 
the iollombig prescription : 
R. Prussic acid, — - - - 12 dro 
Rose water, ‘~ ~ - half a fluid ounce. 
Syrup of popies 3 fluid drachms, 
Mix them, and ike a hibgn tea spoon full every two 
hours. 
The next day the —_ was much better; had enjoy- 
eda better night than for several months, without cough or 
prussic acid was continued four days, each time augmenting 
the dose two drops. The fourth day nausea occurred, 
the symptoms being much better, the remedy was discon- 
tinued. From that time she remained perfectly well, had 
no relapse, and considered her restoration as almost a mir- 
racle, and believed herself perfectly cured. The writer 
dates on the 26th of February, and says, that in his view 
she still needs much care, anda particular regimen, and 
that a8 disease, if not entirely removed, is arrested in its 
— 
re aide gentleman being affected every winter with a 
of the prussic acid, and being called by the service to an- 
mplain 
A gow outy patient, troubled an a aon dyspepsia, was 
sacked by the epidemic catarrh, and was relieved by the 
prussic acid. 
Dr. Kerkaradec, of Paris, relates his experience in the 
use of the phussic aci 
one case of nervous cough, in a patient of forty -— 
* age, it was ineffectual, probably because it was gi 
ery trifling doses, and often omitted by the patient, sh ‘t 
oes ote Meno. that it did any neg 
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