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parently sinking rapidly. Her condition greatly resem- 

 bled that of a person suffering from a fatal attack of 

 Asiatic cholera. To say that I was greatly alarmed 

 would but feebly describe my mental condition. I ran 

 to secure the aid of two or three professional friends, but 

 could find none of them in their offices. Then I ran 

 back again, trembling over what might be the con- 

 sequences, and thinking out a course of treatment to 

 pursue. A princely fortune could not induce me to 

 undergo a repetition of such condition. 



By the time I reached the patient, I had become 

 more calm. A half-saturated, aqueous solution of pot- 

 ash saleratus was given, in tablespoonful doses, every 

 ten minutes, several doses being administered before the 

 stomach would retain it; subsequently, the intervals 

 between the doses were lengthened. Sinapisms were 

 applied to the wrists and ankles; a fomentation of bitter 

 herbs, as hot as could be borne, was applied over the 

 stomach and abdomen, changing it as often as required. 

 In about an hour the extremities became warm, and a 

 general perspiration soon followed, with diminishing 

 suffering and a partial return to a feeling of health and 

 strength. In about an hour or two succeeding the im- 

 provement, the sinapisms were removed, an infusion of 

 slippery-elm bark was ordered to be drunk freely, and 

 about eight grains of the Compound Powder of Ipe- 

 cacuanha and Opium were given every three hours. 

 The next morning she was decidedly better. 



In the course of the second day, her friends allowed 

 her to have a little soup, which was followed by a seri- 

 ous gastro-enteritic inflammation. The fomentations 

 and sinapisms were repeated, and the Diaphoretic Pow- 

 ders continued, as well as the slippery elm infusion, to 



