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Third oiiG liuiidred aiid twenty, and at times the liead-ach was 



Journey. 



distressing. I relieved the head-ach from time to time, 



by applying cold water to the temples, and holding a wet 

 handkerchief there. The next morning the fever ran 

 very high, and I took five more grains of calomel and 

 ten of jalap, determined, whatever might be the case, 

 this should be the last dose of calomel. About two 

 o'clock in the afternoon the fever remitted, and a copious 

 perspiration came on ; there was no more head-ach, nor 

 thirst, nor pain in the back, and the following night was 

 comparatively a good one. The next morning I swal- 

 lowed a large dose of castor oil : it was genuine, for 

 Louisa Backer had made it from the seeds of the trees 

 which grew near the door. I was now entirely free from 

 all symptoms of fever, or apprehensions of a return ; and 

 the morning after I began to take bark, and continued it 

 for a fortjiight. This put all to rights. 



Meets Avith The story of the wound 1 got in the forest, and the • 



an accident. 



mode of cure, are very short. — I had pursued a red- 

 headed woodpecker for above a mile in the forest, 

 without being able to get a shot at it. Thinking more 

 of the woodpecker, as I ran along, than of the way 

 before me, 1 trod upon a little hardwood stump which 

 was just about an inch or so above the ground ; it 

 entered the hollow part of my foot, making a deep and 

 a cerated wound there. It had brought me to the ground, 

 and there I lay till a transitory fit of sickness went off. 



