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When I saw how matters stood, my illness to a certain extent seemed to 
pass away, and on the emergency of the oecasion, pi as I was, I went for 
medical iden, which I was fortunate enough to procure readily. It ap- 
pears directly I had vere de the City, Mrs. eese pes our child out for a 
walk, but about half an hour after luncheon the sa a of the head 
that attacked me came over her, me what with Rested and sickness, she 
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stupor sleep, with her eyes wide open and fixed, her fingers occasion- 
ally dd convulsively, and mouth twitching. At intervals of about five 
or ten minutes, à vomiting-fit appeared to come over her, by the heaving ©: 
chest and stomach, but after the first hour she had not strength enough left for 
retching. The doctor adminis tered two emetics and other medicine to her, an 
found it necessary to attend geil for the first two days, and continue his 
attendance nearly a week. The child remained in the stupor for twenty hours, 
and after that time gradually regained strength. After two or three days, Mrs. 
Smith gradually got well, but that was not the case with me, who had SS 
the lion’s share e feeling of sickness and nausea did not leave me for 
a fortnight, and for three pa four days I ate comparatively npe and 
drank only coffee and milk. On the first day I had swimming of th 
most distressing headache, vomiting and excessive 
urging. I note the latter partieularly, as I was the only one of the three 
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poisoned children, dead fathers and —Ó— etc. etc. etc. The sleepiness 
was shared by my family, but not to uch an extreme degree, for ie my 
5 p.m. fell ae again, and slept tolerably eal till 9 a.m. the next day. On 
the second night I noticed that all the joints of my legs and feet were quite 
stiff, and I could not move e ue ser but in ar d al or 
i passed off. or four nig also no| 
kn e eed a swimming of the head and sick feelings ac- 
companied it, but it all gradually passed away during ten days or a fortnight. 
T had previously observed that my rabbits ate the porous stem of Phallus im- 
