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anc i the head was much relieved ; but during the 

 night, which was very restless, the pulse rose 

 again to one hundred and twenty, and at times 

 the head-ach was distressing. I relieved the 

 head-ach from time to time, by applying cold 

 water to the temples, and holding a wet hand- 

 kerchief there. The next morning the fever ran 

 very high, and I took five more grains of calomel 

 and ten of jalap, determined, whatever might be 

 the case, this should be the last dose of calomel. 

 About two o'clock in the afternoon the fever 

 remitted, and a copious perspiration came on ; 

 there was no more head-ach, nor thirst, nor pain 

 in the back, and the following night was com- 

 paratively a good one. The next morning I 

 swallowed a large dose of castor oil : it was 

 genuine, for Louisa Backer had made it from the 

 seeds of the trees which grew near the door. I 

 was now entirely free from all symptoms of fever, 

 or apprehensions of a return; and the morning 

 after I began to take bark, and continued it for 

 a fortnight. This put all to rights. 



The story of the wound I got in the forest, and 

 the mode of cure, are very short. I had pursued 

 a red-headed woodpecker for above a mile in the 

 forest, without being able to get a shot at it. Think- 

 ing more of the woodpecker, as I ran along, than of 

 the way before me, I trod upon a little hardwood 

 stump, which was just about an inch or so above 

 the ground; it entered the hollow part of my 



