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advert to fuch remedies as were more im- 

 mediately adapted to thofe parts. My iirft 

 intent was to promote evacuation, under a 

 perfed: convicftion there muft be a very violent 

 obftrudlion in the ftomach or fome part of the 

 inteftines: to remove which, I prepared a 

 fmall ball with a fcruple oi jalap y foar grams 

 oi calomel y and two oi ginger -y forming it into 

 a proper confiftence with coiijerve ofhipSy then 

 covering it with a fmall portion of frejh butter 

 to facilitate its paffage, gave it in that form j 

 where it remained no longer than during its 

 folution in the ftomach, almoft inftantly return- 

 ing in a ftate of liquefadion, entirely unac- 

 companied by any other fubftance whatever ; 

 this I repeated five or fix times in kfs than 

 three days, with no better fuccefs. 



As the difeafe advanced in refpedl to time^ 

 the general fymptoms became more violent; 

 the animal, from the firft attack, having never 

 taken any food but warm milk (and that in 

 the moft trifling quantities), was incredibly 

 emaciated : there was a very great contrac- 

 tion and hollownefs of the flank, occafioned 

 by a perceptible ftridture of the mufcles, thai:, 

 producing an hourly increafmg weaknefs of 

 I i 4 the 



