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powdered leaves. In three of those cases, injections of a 
decoction of the leaves of the holly were only employed, with 
an equally good effect. 
The other three cases of the sixty-five: one of an erratic 
type, male, aged twenty-seven; three weeks ill; quinine 
failed, and was cured in six days by three doses of the holly. 
The type of the second and third cases is not mentioned; 
males: one, aged seventy-six, was cured in twenty days, by 
six doses and seven injections of the holly; the other, aged 
sixty, two months ill, cured by six doses of the holly, in eight 
days. 
Conspectus of some of the most remarkable Cases, selected from 
the Sixty-five detailed at length in the original Essay. 
Of the sixty-five cases presented, there are some which 
merit a more particular notice. 
There are four cases given in which quinine, and the other 
eperons of cinchona bark, failed to produce any change 
in the fever. The first is that of a female, who during two 
months was treated for a quartan, by pills of sulphate of 
quinine and injections of the decoction of bark, without the 
slightest effect: one dose of the pulvis ilicis, of two gros, was 
sufficient to check completely the fever. ‘The second in a 
man, treated during three weeks for an erratic intermittent 
fever, by cinchona and its preparations, which failed to pro- 
duce its ordinary effects: three doses of the pulvis ilicis suf- 
ficed to effect a cure. ‘The third case, that of a man aged 
forty-seven, afflicted with a quotidian for fourteen months, 
during which time he was treated by several persons, some 
of whom tried the various preparations of cinchona, in the 
very largest doses: four doses, of three gros each, of the 
pulvis ilicis effected the long-sought-for cure. The fourth 
case, that of a female aged forty-four, during eight months 
was afflicted with a double tertian, for which she took quinine 
without effect: four doses, of two gros each, of the holly 
sufficed to eflect the cure. 
Three other cases deserve notice, owing to the duration of 
the illness and the comparative smallness of the quantity of 
the holly necessary to procure a restoration to health. ‘The 
first, that of a man aged twenty-three, suffering for ten 
months under a quartan intermittent, which ceased in twelve 
days after three doses of the ilex. The second that of a fe- 
male, aged sixty-nine, afflicted during a year with a quartan; 
four doses of the ilex, of two gros each, effected acure. The 
third, a case of tertian intermittent, of one year’s, standing, 
which one dose of one gros of the powdered leaves of the ilex 
effectually removed. 
