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sufficiently often to keep the bowels in a relaxed state. Give 
the antimonial powder every night. We have tried the hydrio- 
date of potash, but he will not touch it. 
10 th. — The respiration is slower, and more quiet ; but there is 
the phthisicky cough. Continue treatment. 
14//i. — Eats well : the countenance is brighter ; but I fear — 
there is the cough and slow emaciation. Continue treatment. 
Y7th. — Relapsing into his former listlessness, and the quick 
and laborious breathing returning. Always relieved after he has 
been gently purged. Keep him under the gentle influence of 
calomel, which is the only purgative we can give. Continue the 
antimonial powder every night. 
I was now absent from the gardens till the 20th of October, and 
in the mean time this system was strictly pursued. He has gained 
flesh, his countenance is brighter, and his appetite better, but he 
heaves at the Jianks and he coughs. What shall I — what can I do ? 
He will not take either digitalis or the hydriodate of potash — the 
calomel I am afraid to continue. I only wonder that it has not 
thoroughly salivated him. In the antimonial powder I have no 
great faith. Leave all off, and supply him plentifully with dog- 
grass. 
27 th. — No change. There is still the cough. Continue the 
dog-grass, which he freely takes, and which keeps his bowels 
open, and occasionally pukes him. 
November 8th. — Heaves shorter and more convulsively, and 
the cough is more frequent; the dulness and disinclination to 
food increases. Give three grains of emetic tartar in water. 
9 th. — He vomited a great quantity of bile. The heaving of 
the flanks has changed its character. The expiration is perform- 
ed by a double effort. Two grains each of calomel and antimonial 
powder daily. 
13/7*. — No change ; continue treatment. 
14 th. — This animal was removed yesterday to new and larger 
quarters. He lies sulky in the corner of his den, and will not 
eat any thing ; consequently no medicine can be administered. 
1 6th. — Will not eat or move. 
18/ h . — He has eaten very little ; not sufficient to enable us to 
cheat him. 
24 th. — Very little change, except that it is seldom he can be 
induced to take his medicine. 
28 th. — Evidently getting worse and worse. 
December 3d. — He appears to be almost choaked by something 
filling the upper air-passages. 
7th. — Died. Considerable phthisis, inflammation, enlargement, 
and an approach to ramollissement of the liver. The lungs pre- 
