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but not ferocious meaning. Food — he is scarcely conscious of 
its being offered to him, and, consequently, no medicine can be 
administered. The heaving is dreadful, especially after these fits 
of delirium. Try to find something that he will eat or drink. 
4 th. — The delirium is passed ; he is walking slowly and weakly 
about his den, but he has his grunt of recognition for all his old 
favourites. He ate half a rabbit last night. We happened to 
have some meat left : I ordered it to be given to him ; he seized 
it, and ate more than three pounds, and we cheated him with ten 
grains of calomel in one of the pieces. Give him eight grains of 
the iodide of iron morning and night, and twelve grains of the 
hydriodate of potash twice in the middle of the day. Desperate 
cases require desperate remedies. We will try the full effect of 
the iodide. 
5th. — Either the poor fellow has amazing strength of constitu- 
tion, or there is power of no little efficacy in the medicine he is 
taking. He has once more rallied : he walks about for ten mi- 
nutes at a time, and rears himself against the partition, and 
scratches it in good earnest, and then he is perfectly exhausted, 
and lies down, heaving with a violence it is painful to watch. 
Continue the iodide of iron, and give sixteen grains of the hydri- 
odate of potash twice in the day. 
7tli. — He is regaining strength : he eats five or six pounds of 
solid meat daily, and the fseces are natural ; but the respiration 
is as bad as or worse than ever; and after he has exerted him- 
self, one would fancy that he would die every moment. Continue 
medicine. 
9 th. — Not so well ; refuses his food. A slight degree of 
delirium. Kill a sheep, and give him the flesh and blood 
warm. 
1 1th. — He has once more roused himself, and eats and walks 
about; but the consequent exhaustion is even more, and the 
emaciation is dreadfully rapid. He has not been observed to 
cough during the last three or four days. 
14 th. — He ate four pounds of meat in the night, and fought 
for his bone in the morning ; but there is an almost total pros- 
tration of strength. Continue the medicine. 
1 6th. — We have moved him into the Pheasantry, in order that 
he may be out of the way of the visitors. The removal was ef- 
fected without annoying him much ; for a fowl being, very soon 
afterwards, put into his cage, he killed it, and ate part of it. He 
is, however, very peevish and out of temper ; otherwise I see 
little change in him, except that the breathing is, if possible, 
more laborious. Give him, beside his other medicine, one grain 
of the acetate of morphine at night. 
