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enlargement, or heat, or tenderness, and therefore I could not be 
persuaded to use my lancet on the gums. This gentleman did 
not approve of the calomel ; it was therefore discontinued, but 
the antimonial powder was given as before. 
8th. — He scarcely touches his milk ; he will not eat any thing, 
and, altogether, he is worse. The bowels not acting, I once 
more gave him his calomel, and the antimonial at night. He is 
weaker, and certainly he is wasting fearfully. 
9th . — The calomel has caused the evacuation of a load of 
pultaceous faeces, which it seemed scarcely possible for him to 
have contained : but he is very low and dull, and will now 
scarcely touch his milk. ' A surgeon that had previously seen 
him again met me in consultation. We fancied that we felt 
a slight enlargement now of the posterior part of the gum of the 
upper jaw on the right side ; and there not being, even to the pre- 
sent moment, the slightest indication of any other local affection , 
except that I fancied that his head felt a little hot, we determined 
to treat it as a case of teething. The gums, above and below, 
and on both sides, were deeply lanced, and on the right side of 
the upper jaw I did cut down on a tooth. Give him half a 
drachm of calcined magnesia in the morning, and two grains of 
antimonial powder at night. 
19th, a.m. — A fearful change has taken place since last night. 
The pallid look has more than returned, and with an increased 
pitiable expression of the countenance. The strength is in a 
manner altogether gone. He can scarcely walk, and will not 
sit up above a minute or two at a time. He would not drink 
the milk in which his magnesia was put, and therefore it was 
forced upon him ; and now he is suspicious of everybody and of 
every thing, and will not touch the slightest portion of food. 
Try the magnesia once more in a little tea, but never again drug 
his milk. He will not touch his tea : then force the medicine 
upon him, and, as that cannot be avoided, give him two grains 
of ginger in each dose of the magnesia. After the first dose he 
had a copious, but, for the first time, a mucous discharge per 
anum, and tinged with blood, and then he appeared to be sadly 
depressed. 
p.m. — He has a little revived, but he is sadly low, and I fear 
the result. The faeces are now almost the colour of bile, with 
flocculi of coagulated milk. Give to-night half a drachm of cal- 
cined magnesia, with the same quantity of the syrup of white 
poppies. 
Wth. — I do not, on the whole, think that he is worse. The 
mucus has disappeared from the stools, and the faeces are pulta- 
ceous. He again drinks his milk. Continue treatment. 
