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consequence other symptoms had set in, such as 

 anorexia, with disturbed sleep, producing a general 

 loss of health. For internal administration I 

 ordered a vegetable tonic and mild aloetic pill ; the 

 inflamed bites being ordered to be kept constantly 

 moist with Goulard lotion. Lint thus soaked, and 

 covered with oil-silk, was applied over the entire 

 abdominal surface. Under this simple but effective 

 treatment the boils rapidly disappeared, and after a 

 while the general health itself was thoroughly re- 

 established ; partly I believe in consequence of the 

 subsequent changes and additions in the tonic 

 treatment which I had found necessary. I bring 

 forward this case as being the only instance in 

 which I have myself witnessed any marked consti- 

 tutional disturbance following the bite of the 

 harvest-bug. Personally, I can testify to the 

 excessive irritation caused by the bites of this 

 insect. 



CASE LXXX. H. S. J., a married person, 

 about fifty years of age, consulted me in the autumn 

 of 1869. When living in the West Indies she had 

 suffered severely from the bites and lodgment of 

 the gigger or chigoe in her feet; unfortunately, 

 also, she still retains the belief that either the 

 original insects or their progeny are 'still lodged 

 beneath the skin. On examining her feet I found 

 them scarred all over with minute incisions. These 

 it seems she had recently inflicted upon herself, 



