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throat, stomach, and intestines, it was natural I 

 should advert to such remedies as were m-ore 

 immediately adapted to those parts. Aly first 

 intent was to promote evacuation, under a 

 perfect conviction there must be a ver)^ vio- 

 lent obstruction in the stomach or some part 

 of the intestines; to remove which, I pre- 

 pared a small ball with a scruple of Jr/Z^yj, 

 four grains of calomel, and two of ginger, 

 forming it into a proper consistence with con- 

 serve of hips, then covering it with a small 

 portion oi fresh butter to facilitate its passage, 

 gave it in that form ; where it remained no 

 lon«;er than durins^ its solution in the sto- 

 mach, almost instantly returning in a state 

 of liquefaction, entirely unaccompanied by 

 any other substance whatever : this I re- 

 peated five or six times in less than three 

 days, with no better success. 



As the disease advanced in respect to time, 

 the general symptoms became more violent ; 

 the animal, from the first attack, having 

 never taken any food but warm milk (and 

 that in the most trifling quantities), was 

 incrediblv emaciated : there was a very me^,t 

 contraction and hollowness of the flank, oc- 

 easioned by a perceptible stricture of the 



