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ferent climates, in the same vessel, or some casiip. Some 

 cases in point were referred to, in my address bef(.»re 

 quoted, and others of a similar nature are on record, af- 

 fording proof of the existence of the same laws in the 

 animal economy of man and brute animals. In the 

 event of a disease occurring in future, from the cause 

 above assigned, 1 would recommend an early and 

 thorough evacuation of the bowels by a mixture of cas- 

 tor oil and molasses, and then the use of the cedar-berry 

 drench as used by Mr. Harrison. See p. 9^ of this 

 volume. If the berries cannot be procured, drenches of 

 an infusion of black snake-root tea,* may be substituted. 

 This medicine is mentioned by the late Dr. Bartonf as 

 having been used with success in the bloody murrain in 

 North Carolina; and in this volume, p. 88, Mr. Wayne 

 has recorded a cure by it, combined with purges, in that 

 disease, the near alliance of which, with the one I have 

 described, appears to be great. 



* Actea Racemosa. 



t Materia Medica of the United States, Sd edit. p. 9. Philad, 

 1810. Dr. B. doubtless obtained his information from those 

 who had witnessed the powers of the plant in the disease. 



