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longed exposure to sun and rain, I felt rather uncomfort- 
able on rising, and after breakfast symptoms of remittent 
fever showed themselves unmistakeably in cold, nausea, vom- 
iting, headache with bounding pulse. Three doses of sulphite 
taken between twelve and two o’clock relieved me from 
every febrile symptom, and before 5 p.m., the system was in 
its normal condition. One or two more illustrations and I 
close the case for the sulphites. A mare suckling a foal of 
four months, had suffered for more than two years from an 
obstinate cutaneous eruption against which almost every 
external application had been directed unsuccessfully from 
the “ Poor Man’s Friend” to Pitch Oil ; after a few days’ 
exhibition of the Sulphite of Soda, the smaller patches 
healed and the larger ones showed great improvement. The 
external treatment however was in this instance continued 
and may have caused the amendment. Again, a gentleman 
who had suffered for six weeks from an angry boil on the 
calf, was unpleasantly surprised by the very common inci- 
dent of its healing being followed by the appearance of 
two or three others ; one of which when shown to me in- 
volved the whole calf in a fiery flush, hot and hard to the 
touch, the cuticle, over the apex of the boil, was cracked and 
discharging a little serum, while down to the ankle tho 
skin pitted deeply on pressure. Under I dram doses of 
sulphite of soda, the skin resumed its normal appearance 
in four days, the swelling and its contents having rapidly 
disappeared without any further opening in tho skin. To 
this last case I venture particularly to call your attention. 
It is the counterpart of one given by Picci and unmistake- 
ably proves the powers of tho alkalino sulphites in arrest- 
ing the deposition of pus from the blood and allowing its 
subsequent absorption and elimination without injury to- 
the system. Those of you who have suffered from furun- 
