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at ease throughout the night, the skin was moist, and the 

 pulse better. The other symptoms all abated, and the 

 patient slept. On the fifth day, the symptoms returned, 

 with delirium, sighing, anxiety, failing pulse, great dys- 

 pnoea, partial yelloivness of the skin, and even a locked 

 jaw, as in some cases of yellow fever. 



Another author cites a case of fungous toxication, in 

 which ".the remission was so well marked as to attract 

 attention. The Die. des Sci. Med. reports cases of 

 this kind, in which occurred the most acute pains, which 

 were intermittent ; and often there was a pause of two or 

 three days, during which the sick could attend to their 

 affairs." A recent epidemic fever in Scotland presented 

 both the yellow skin, and the long and curious intermis- 

 sions described in the above cases. 



A reverend gentleman of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church, in the city of New York, in the preceding year 

 (1845), went with his family to a place near Sing-Sing, 

 and about three miles from the Hudson, which was selected 

 because of its reputation for health, and its exemption 

 from malarious diseases. In August and September, 

 when mushrooms were very abundant, and when the 

 country people abstained from their use, under the im- 

 pression that they disposed them to fevers, the clergy- 

 man's lady, in her frequent drives, collected them daily, 

 and for some time subsisted almost exclusively on them. 

 The remainder of the family ate them more sparingly, 

 and less frequently. About the end of September, the 

 lady was attacked by an irregular fever, without periodical 

 chills, but marked by an exacerbation on every second day. 

 Thus the nature of the case was not suspected, until the 

 return of an attack in the spring, which became regularly 

 periodical in June, and assumed a distinct tertian form. 



