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midst of agonizing torments, he stands quiet, as 

 though every pain had left him, and he were going to 

 recover. His breathing becomes tranquilized— his 

 pulse sunk beyond all conception — his body bedewed 

 with a cold, clammy sweat — he is in a tremor from 

 head to foot, and about the legs and ears has even a 

 death-like feel. The mouth feels deadly chill, the lips 

 drop pendulous, and the eye seems unconscious of 

 objects : in fine, death, not recovery, is at hand. 

 Mortification has seized the inflamed bowel — pain can 

 no longer be felt in that which, a few minutes ago, 

 was the seat of exquisite suffering. He again becomes 

 convulsed, and in a few more struggles, less violent 

 than the former, he expires." 



Treatment. —The treatment should be prompt and 

 energetic. The first and most powerful means of cure 

 will be bleeding. From six to eigjht quarts of blood 

 should be abstracted as soon as possible ; and the 

 bleeding repeated if the pain is not relieved and the 

 pulse has not become rounder and fuller. Weakness 

 is the consequence of the violent inflammation of 



