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to take any more of the blood into which it had been put. They 
were, however, induced to take the calomel in a little more blood, 
and that has both puked and purged them. The male vomited 
a full pint of bilious matter, and his stools, although only pulta- 
ceous, consisted principally of bile. They are getting sadly 
thin ; the eyes are sunk ; the countenance anxious ; there is a 
spasmodic catching of the legs and tail, and the subcutaneous 
muscles of the sides. They are continually licking their feet and 
gnawing their legs. Give no medicine, but endeavour to tempt 
them to eat. 
June IsL — Depressed and begins to stagger. No medicine, 
but coax to eat, which he has not done for three days. The 
spasmodic catching has almost ceased in him. 
3d . — They will not touch any thing — not even their water. 
Coax them in every way, but no medicine. 
5th. — He begins to dunk a little milk. Let him have as much 
as he likes. 
9th. — Still continues to lap a little milk. I am unwilling to 
drug it, lest 1 throw him off his food for ever. 
12th. — He will take nothing but raw milk. I put a couple of 
grains of calomel in his milk yesterday ; he detected it in a 
moment, and turned from it in disgust, tasteless and devoid of 
smell as it appears to be to us ; and he would not take any thing 
during that day. To-day, after a great deal of pondering over 
it, he took a little milk. 
1 5th. — He continues to take a little milk, but never without a 
scrupulous examination of it. He can now scarcely rise, and 
breathes with difficulty. 
1 7th. — He seems to be rapidly going. The difficulty of 
breathing amounts to groaning at the slightest change of 
posture. 
18M. — Very little change, except that he is gradually sinking. 
I have tried to cheat him again and again, but he detects the 
medicine in a moment. 
21 st. — Dead. There was not a trace of disease in the abdo- 
men, except very slight inflammation of the liver, and two rings 
of contraction at the commencement of the colon. A gentleman 
examined the thorax in my absence, and the parts were buried. 
His report was, that the lungs were tuberculated, and that many 
of the tubercles contained purulent matter. 
