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milk, butter, eggs, and especially cream, with meat 

 and fish, and also plenty of fruit, the latter being 

 sometimes fresh and sometimes stewed. The whole 

 time, or one month, during which she remained 

 with my family she continued to take the buchu 

 infusion with the most marked advantage ; and at 

 the expiration of that period she was, with my 

 approval, removed to the west coast of England, 

 where, under the excellent personal superintendence 

 of a relative, she has continued to retain her healthy 

 condition. Nevertheless the hsematuria, though 

 lessened at times, has never disappeared. When I 

 again saw her on the 22nd March, 1871, her general 

 health was satisfactory. She slept well ; the tongue 

 was clean and of good colour; the bowels and pulse 

 were both regular the latter numbering 104 and 

 the appetite hearty as usual. In the small quantity 

 of urine brought for my examination I could find 

 no eggs of Bilharzia ; but I soon afterwards ascer- 

 tained that this afforded me no true criterion of 

 the state of the parasitism. A subsequent exami- 

 nation proved them to exist in the urine in great 

 numbers. Satisfied, however, with the marked 

 palliative effects of buchu as affecting the vesical 

 mucous membrane, I still recommended a con- 

 tinuance of this drug ; but I deprecated the employ- 

 ment of injections of any kind into the bladder. In 

 my last prescriptions I combined the tincture of 

 buchu with the syrup of bearberry (arctostaphylos), 



