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be attributed to the interruption of the use of it, during 

 the interposition of blood-letting, and of alterant and 

 paregoric medicines, 



" De Haen, in the eighth chapter of his first volume 

 of the Ratio Medendi, narrates a case in the following 

 words. ' Novem annorum puellam, cui post variolas 

 morbillosque, primo tussis frequens, deinde sputum pu- 

 rulentum aderat, sputum demum plane cessabat, Chorea 

 Saftcti Viti prehendit, sinistro potissimum brachio pede- 

 %a<e, ac diversimoda faciei convulsio. Bimestri spatio, 

 adhibita vi electrica, pustula; copiosas, easque turpiter 

 crustosas, brachium et crus cingunt, interpolatis purgan- 

 tibus, perfecta salus redivit.' 



" By this treatment, which I have endeavoured to re- 

 commend, Chorea is speedily cured, generally in ten 

 days or a fortnight, from the commencement of the course 

 . of purgative medicines. * * * 



" In the structure of the female pelvis, and in the 

 previous duration of Chorea, we may find the reason 

 why it admits of a more or less difficult cure. When 

 the disease is protracted, or when it occurs in girls, 

 greater opportunity for the accumulation of feculent 

 matter is afforded dian in more recent cases, or than 

 where it attacks boys. Of course, a longer time, and 

 brisker purgatives will be required to move and expel 

 the offending mass, in the former, than in the latter in- 

 stances. 



