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I have heard of some instances where emetics have been 

 said to do harm, by reason of the violence of their ope- 

 ration. But this happened where they had been admi- 

 nistered previously to bleeding. I have met with few, 

 if any, cases in my practice, in which I have not thought 

 I perceived considerable advantage from the use of 

 emetics. 



Query 11. " What are the usual febrifuges you em- 

 ploy, and the effects of them?" 



Answer. When I first commenced practice in this 

 country, I used, in general, the following febrifuges: 

 viz., James's-powder, and emetic -tartar. With the use 

 of these means, the usual diluents, such as balm-tea, 

 sage and maiden-hair teas; rice and barley water; and 

 a low diet. My patients generally recovered. The 

 deaths, in cases of bilious fevers, have, at no time, ex- 

 ceeded one in fifty. 



This season, which has been sickly, out of between 

 four and five hundred patients, I have lost but one. 

 This was an aged woman, of the name of Leech, a resi- 

 dent of Lysander. The first time I saw her, the symp- 

 toms were putrid in a high degree. She lived five days 

 after I saw her, and died on the eleventh day of her dis- 

 order. 



I have been called, as a consulting physician, to some 

 others, in the last stage of the disease, and when the 

 •symptoms have been nervous and putrid. These, in a 

 few instances, ha\'e died. These cases, as occurring out 



