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use of was beef tea, and it answered the purpose remarkably well. 

 Every paroxysm became shortened in consequence of it, as much 

 as two or three days, and instead of the numerous evacuations above- 

 mentioned, they were lessened in number two thirds or more, and 

 these were less copious and irritating than before. The patient was 

 confined absolutely to this diet, M'hile the diarrhea lasted, except 

 that he was allowed to drink a little pure brandy and water. Rest 

 or the avoidance of exercise w.as also highly necessary, and strictly 

 enjoined j if at any time this course was dispensed with, the at- 

 tack was as severe and as long as before. From a change of diet, 

 and an increase of exercise, and other causes, the patient became 

 toward the close of the year, more healthy, and now, during a turn 

 of diarrhea, the beef tea is of no service. 



JMOTE E. 



A gentleman, Avhose digestive powers were exceedingly impair- 

 ed, and whose stomach was filled with a most corrosive acid, so that 

 whenever he vomited, which he did often, his throat became exco- 

 riated to such a degree, thatluke-warm milk and water occasioned 

 considerable pain in swallowing, took large doses of Hull's cholic 

 powder, a cathartic composed of aloes and aromatics. This pro- 

 duced copious evacuations from the intestines. Among the foecal 

 mass, were observed, a large number of pieces of carrot, which were 

 washed and found unaltered ; yet he had not eaten any carrots within 

 three months from that time. I do not suppose this to have been 

 occasioned, by the peculiarly indigestible nature of the carrot, but 

 chiefly by the excessive torpidity of the digestive pov/ers. This fact, 

 however extraordinary it may seem, may entirely be relied on. 



