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a mere exudation of a white fluid, which collected 

 in drops, and which I found upon inspissation 

 turned black, and formed a substance not unlike 

 Indian rubber. The most singular circumstance 

 respecting this tree is the four-sided character of 

 its branches, being as angular as if put together by 

 a carpenter. On examining the interior of a 

 decayed portion, I found a shell of hard wood not 

 more than three-fourths of an inch in thickness; 

 and the interior sometimes, from side to side, 

 several inches wide, hollow, but divided into 

 chambers by partitions, consisting of a substance 

 like the paper formed by wasps in constructing 

 their tree-suspended nests. 



I was called in to a singular case to-day ; for 

 in Aliu Amba, I must oberve, my professional ser- 

 vices were in great request, and I had stated hours 

 of attendance daily at my house, from sunrise to 

 nine o'clock, during which time my door was 

 regularly thronged. I went to see my new patient 

 with Walderheros, and found a youth about sixteen 

 years old, afflicted with a rupture in the groin, but 

 the protruded intestine had been returned by the 

 boy's father just previously to my going into the 

 house. The people I found there, wanted me to do 

 something to prevent the recurrence of the com- 

 plaint, but as I had no trusses with me, I only 

 recommended rest and future care against violent 

 exertion. Understanding that I could do nothing 

 more, it was determined among them to proceed 



