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sert-spoonfal every twelve hours, and in acute cases 

 every three hours ; and the good effects of the 

 medicine must seem miraculous to one who is not 

 accustomed to this mode of treating diseases. 

 Already in a few hours the patient becomes tran- 

 quil, showing that the process of disorganization 

 has been arrested ; the improvement continues from 

 hour to hour ; the sleep becomes more tranquil ; 

 the cutaneous secretions, and those of the bowels 

 and kidneys, become more active ; after the lapse 

 of one, or at most two days, the urine begins to 

 look clearer and lighter-colored, and in about 

 three days a return of the natural color of the 

 urine shows that the functions of the liver are 

 restored to their normal standard ; the patient is 

 able to do without any further medical treatment, 

 and the natural reaction of the vital forces will be 

 found sufficient to effect a cure. 



If I have not mentioned the affections of the 

 kidneys, which may be present in this disease, it is 

 because I have become satisfied by years of expe- 

 rience, that they constitute secondary affections in 

 scarlatina, and that we should commit a great error 

 if we would draw conclusions regarding this point 

 from post-mortem phenomena. 



Nobody who has observed the resemblance, at 

 any rate, during the present epidemic, between 



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and scarlet-fever, will deny that the remarks which 



