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In another patient, in the last stage of consumption, it 
was given in very small portions, but it appeared rather to 
aggravate the cough, and its use was abandoned ; the pa- 
tient died soon after: it does not appear that in this case it 
accelerated the death, which seems to —_ occurred be- 
cause the disease had run its course.. It does not seem to 
be useful in the last stage of consumption, lon perhaps. it 
would be difficult to point out any thing else that is. 
Dr. Kerkaradec relates another case, of a child of seven 
years, which for five months was afflicted with a dry cough, 
constant and very wearing, attended by pain in the left side 
of the chest, by fever, &c. The usual remedies were ap- 
plied for three months, without success, when the whoop- 
ing cough supervened in a viclent degree, and after sayin 
on three months, was spontaneously cured. The d 
cough then returned, and after a month more, was found . 
be constant ; the pain in the side recurred, and the left side 
_ of the chest gave a bad sound ; the tongue was white—the 
appetite gone—-the bowels ams consiipated=renlatged, 
and somewhat sensible to the touch ; there was a ea 
quickness of pulse, considerable aeromaa a tendency to 
siness, and a severe pain in the head. ‘The usual al 
were applied with some mitigation of the symptoms, but the 
cough — ——— its peculiar character. The 
prussic acid was then administered, twelve drops i in three 
ipa taken by sponte once in two hours. (“La dose 
fut d’une cuillerée a café toutes les deux heures.” (At 
the end of three days, the cough began to diminish, and 
three potions more, into which there. entered fifteen drops 
of the medicine, completed the cure, and at the end of seven 
months there had been no return of the complaint. 
A little girl three and a half years old had a whooping 
cough of five cones lero fits of coughing were 
very violent, and at least twelve ina day, producing mu- 
cous expectoration, ors a great deal of blood ; the disease 
was assuaged by leeches applied to the left side "of the chest, 
where they were indicated by the sound ; the blood ceased 
to appear, and the cough was less frequent, and less violent. 
The prussic acid, twelve or fifteen drops, administered in 
the usual manner,* in po tions, removed the cough after two 
potions, and in twelve days it he ities 
* Viz. where twelve were employed befo: 
