again, the medicine was exhausted before the cure of the 
disease. This put me upon reflecting, that if I could pro- 
eure the eine acid, that I then should be able to peer 
the efficient principle of the lauro-cerasus, and might 1 
command any quantity of it. I therefore applied to the 
Chemist above mentioned, and was furnished with the de- 
sideratum. It was prescribed for my relative, and soon 
manifested i its good effects in relieving the cough, promoting 
appetite, and shortly producing a complete suspension of the 
malady. In several other patients, it appeared to palliate 
the symptoms. In some other cases little or no effect was 
manilested:. _This failure in the acid, Tam now inclined to 
josition, either 
pe agency of the vehicle it was exhibited 
tha, dose not having been accommodated | to its ¢ 
tion, this want of success in. many of the cases 
lessened my confidence in the remedy, yet it io not pre- 
vent me from prescribing it. I soon after saw two more ca- 
ses of phthisis which were cured by the acid, They had 
not reached the purulent stage. 
» I have generally found it necessary to increase the dose 
pine until it manifests its afi: on the Seat ro 
hie 
do’ ray take pce fom the ston a any dan 
spate an who. can ree bear the medicine in say 
Tam ‘not’ certain ‘that Le have ever seen any. pe mane 
shed effects from its ? I have 
er whee: the cdo er busi 
