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not attempt to describe the effect which this awful cri- 

 sis produced upon the parents, who remained agonized 

 spectators of the scene. I hastily laid the child on its 

 bed, and bound up its arm. In a few seconds it was 

 perceived to respire with entire ease, and slept with 

 perfect composure. 



Having remained, perhaps, an hour, without disco- 

 vering any returning symptoms of the disease, I left it, 

 after directing a dose of calomel to be given when it 

 should awake. Some hours afterwards, and before the 

 return of day, I was again summoned to the same 

 place. I obej'ed with a heavy heart, supposing that 

 my poor little patient had relapsed. In this, however, 

 I was most agreeably disappointed. I found a younger 

 child of the same family labouring under the same dis- 

 ease. On this occasion, I had no preliminary points to 

 settle ; bandage, compress, and bason, were already 

 prepared, and I proceeded promptly to the application 

 of my new remedy, with the same happy success as in 

 the first instance. 



On the following day, I had the great gratification 

 to find each of my little patients in fine spirits, and 

 breathing with perfect freedom. The cough, when it re- 

 curred, which was seldom, still retained something: of 

 the sound which is characteristic, but it gradually dis- 

 appeared in the course of a day or two, and neither of 

 the children had any return of the disease during their 

 residence in this place. 



