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quite gone, but they are subsiding. He drinks a great part of 
the blood and eats the inside fat. The flanks, however, still 
heave ominously, and he coughs. We are gone back to the 
hydriodate, of which he has eight grains morning and night. 
29 th. — Little difference, except that the cough increases and 
the breathing is more laborious, and he is beginning to be dis- 
gusted with his new food. Still, however, persevere with it, 
and give ten grains of the hydriodate morning and night. 
May LsL — A sad relapse. His breathing can again be 
heard at a distance of many yards. He is continually getting 
up and lying down, moaning and roaring, and seeming as if he 
was about to breathe his last. He was coaxed to take some 
water, and the spasm gradually passed away. He was com- 
pletely exhausted. Are we giving too much of the iodine ? Is 
this, after all, more an intestinal than pulmonary complaint? 
The dung is natural. The cough continues. Lower each dose 
of the medicine to eight grains. Do not give up the warm food, 
but change it. Give a rabbit, just knocked on the head, and 
thrown to him struggling. 
2d. — The whole of this day has passed without a spasm. Di- 
minish the hydriodate to six grains : let him have nothing to 
drink but warm water. 
3d. — He has again been spasmed, but not so badly as before. 
The warm water relieved him. One would almost think that he 
could trace its effect, for he will not touch any thing else, and 
turns from his milk and the blood with loathing. 
4 th. — Another spasmodic attack; the moaning and roaring 
dreadful : he now lies stretched at his length, and heaving as if 
every breath would be the last. Give him a rabbit to-night, and 
conceal an opium pill in it. 
5tli. — These spasmodic attacks now occur about eleven o’clock 
every morning, and five or six o’clock in the afternoon. Give a 
grain of the acetate of morphine about an hour before the ex- 
pected time. The cough continues. Try the iodide of iron ; 
give him four grains at noon. 
7th. — These fits of exacerbation have ceased ; but I do not 
know whether we have not a worse evil. The general breathing 
is more laborious, and he is stupid, and disinclined to eat. 
Never mind ; we will keep him a few days under the influence 
of the narcotic. Increase the iodide to six grains. 
10 th. — He is dull and sleepy, and does not feed well, and 
breathes laboriously, but certainly not worse than a few days 
ago ; I should rather say better. Continue the morphine and 
the iodide. 
12 th. — The violent exacerbations have not returned. The 
