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If this cannot be given, keep a ball of aloes in the mouth, the 

 action of which may be increased by adding to the ball two 

 drachms of calo- 

 mel, and omitting 

 the c rot on oil. 

 Give injections of 

 belladonna, half 

 an ounce dissolved 

 in a pail of water. 

 Opium has been 

 much used, but is 

 giving way to 

 other prepara- bvron's mazeppa. 



. " They left me there to my despair, 



tions. Give upon Liuk'd to the dead and stiffening wretch." 



the tongue every hour twenty drops of the following mixture : 

 hydrocyanic acid and tincture of aconite, of each one ounce ; 

 mix, and shake, well together. Blistering the back, from the 

 head to the tail, has succeeded in some cases. Chloroform has 

 been highly recommended, but appears to have only a tempo- 

 rary effect; ii is given in doses of from one to two drachms. 



RHEUMATISM. 



This disease is quite common in the Western States. The 

 symptoms are stiffness, lameness, and shifting from one limb to 

 another ; sometimes tumefaction is observable about the extre- 

 mities. The lameness is sometimes absent, and appears to be 

 influenced by changes in the weather. 



For treatment, poultice the feet with mustard and flaxseed 

 meal. Give internally of nux vomica, one ounce; pulverized 

 gentian root, one and a half ounces ; pulverized ginger, ono 



