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Dec. 13. She appears stronger, and is evidently mending; 

 but the pulse continues to intermit. Raustus anodyn. o.n. 



Dec. IQ. Dressed the wound, which looked remarkahly 

 heallhvj being nearly healed ; and the patient is in every 

 respect belter. 



Dec. 17. Continues free from pain : rests well at night: 

 appetite is returning : and she is now able to sit up some 

 Tiours daily. The anodyne draught omitted. 



Dec. IB. Dressed the wound, from which there is a small 

 discharge, but no other inconvenience : pulse regular. 



Dec. 20. A little smarting pain has been experienced in 

 the woundj from inflammation and excoriation of the inte- 

 guments. The ung. sperm, ceti was applied, and an ape- 

 rient medicine was taken. 



Dec. 21, 22. The inflammation is nearly reduced, and 

 the general health much improved. 



Dcc.2'i — 26. Continues to mend: the wound completely 

 healed. 



Dec. 29. Perfectly recovered. 



In the recovery of this patient there were two remarkable 

 occurrences : the intermission of the pulse, which began on 

 the second and continued to the eighth day after the opera- 

 tion ; and the extreme debility, or inability to move or speak : 

 even the motion of the hand excited an uneasy sensation, 

 and an attempt to articulate distressed the patient exceed- 

 ingly. Might not these symptoms take place partly from 

 peritoneal inflammation ? 



Several cases have recently occurred, in wiilch, on the ex- 

 hibition of small doses of calomel combined with jalap, the 

 mercurial salivation has suddenly appeared, and in some in- 

 stances has been continued even to an alarming extent. 



In one instance, four grains of calomel and sixteen grains 

 of jalap were divided into four pills, one of which was taken 

 every third morning, and operated as a moderate cathartic, 

 generally occasioning two or three extra evacuations in the 

 day; which was also succeeded by ptyalism, that continued 

 upwardsofthree weeks, and evidently arosefrom the mercury. 



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