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concerning her, unless some untoward change should take place. 
However, continue the medicine. 
Dec. 2d. — No cough — eats well — in good spirits. Dismissed. 
13/A. — She continues well; but, I think, the tumour on the 
back is enlarging:. 
1835, January 9 th . — I do not like her. I have been watch- 
ing her for two or three days, and her breathing has been gra- 
dually quickening, and I have heard her cough ; the peculiar 
diagnostic cough so often described. She feeds well, and is 
playful. Give six grains each of calomel and antimonial powder. 
12 th. — The powder acted well ; but the quickness of breath- 
ing and the cough remain. Give four grains of the hydriodate 
of potash morning and night. 
13 th. — Very little difference ; but, if any, she breathes more 
freely. Increase the dose of the hydriodate to six grains. 
17/4. — On the whole she improves : she eats well, and plays 
with her companion ; but the heaving of the flanks shews that 
there is some serious disturbance or mischief within. 
12/4. — Still I should say that her strength, spirits, and ap- 
petite, are unaffected ; but there is a fearful difference between 
her breathing and that of the lion. 
24/4. — This dreadful disease is now developing itself once 
more in good earnest. She wastes ; it is as much as I can say — 
but she does : the anxious depressed countenance has returned ; 
and the breathing is not relieved. 
28/4. — Her breathing is becoming progressively more labo- 
rious ; and, although she eats her food in the course of the night, 
it is with less appetite. Give eight grains of the hydriodate 
morning and night. 
Feb. 4th. — Considerably worse : the cough frequent and dis- 
tressing. She lies on her back, and heaves violently. The 
appetite is nearly gone. Leave off all medicine, and coax her 
to eat. 
11/4. — She has been gradually getting worse and worse, and 
must be near her end. 
12/4. — Died. She was much emaciated externally, but she 
had a considerable quantity of internal fat about her. The lungs 
had a singular appearance : parts were emphysematous ; parts 
hepatized ; parts somewhat congested ; none healthy, and no- 
where any intense inflammation. There was not a portion of 
the lungs that was not thickly set with tubercles : a few small ones 
were disposed to suppurate ; and many of the larger ones were 
connecting themselves together, and assuming a carcinomatous 
character. The emphysematous edges everywhere assumed the 
same character in a singular way. There was a deposit in and 
