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Case 3rd. — C. D., aged thirty years, suffered very much from 

 dysentery during the Affghan campaign, and arrived at Mussoorie 

 on the 17th March 1843, extremely emaciated; with frequent, 

 whitish, watery stools with little red, mucus masses, no pain on 

 pressure over the abdomen. He got worse after arriving at the hills, 

 and came to Landour on the 21st very weak, and much depressed 

 in spirits, with constant nausea and vomiting, stools like inspissated 

 yellow pus, with a few detached masses of red mucus : the pulse 

 was feeble, and the extremities cold. Effervescing draughts, wine, 

 opiates, calomel and opium and enemata, were given and sinapisms 

 and blisters applied to the epigastrium, but the vomiting continued, 

 and the stools remained of the same character till the evening of 

 the 25th, when feculent matter was passed. The bowels were 

 regulated by anodyne enemata and effervescing draughts, till the 

 29th, when a pill, composed of equal parts of extract of gentian and 

 colocynth, was ordered every morning with suppositories of assafcetida 

 and nitrate of silver. These were given as injections dissolved 

 in two ounces of water, from the 1 st April till the 7th, when small 

 injections of acetate of lead were substituted. On the 11th he 

 passed no blood by stool, and was feeling stronger, when he com- 

 menced using the chalybeate water every morning. The pill was 

 continued every night till the 18th, and then occasionally till the 

 1st May. The bowels were then regular, and he was regaining 

 strength. To continue the chalybeate. 



1st June. — Continues regaining strength and flesh, bowels regu- 

 lar, occasionally passes pure blood after his stools. To continue 

 the chalybeate. 



1st January y 1844. — Continues in good health, using the chaly- 

 beate regularly every morning, with an occasional dose of castor oil, 

 when his bowels are costive ; occasionally passes blood from piles. 



1st April. — Has been in the Dhoon ; continues regaining flesh and 

 colour. Uses the chalybeate regularly. 



1st September. — Bowels were irregular for a few days last month, 

 but after starving and taking four pills, composed of equal parts of 

 blue pill, ipecacuanha, and gentian, they became regular, and have 

 continued so. He still occasionally passes blood from piles. This 

 is a safety valve, which it would be injudicious to close. 



