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The pose in the Photograph is Characteristic. His legs 
are held well apart, and he^s not only leaning on the stick, 
but his hips are also pressed against the rail of the house. 
The Dropsical condition of the body is well shown. 
Treatment. He was at/once removed from the filthy 
Fore-castle of the ship where, undoubtedly, the disease was 
contracted, i$to a large airy ward of the Quarantine Hospital. 
Rice and fish were eliminated from his diet which consisted 
principally of Nitrogenous foods, such as peas, beans, Oatmeal 
and Corn meal mush. He was also allowed eggs, milk anfl occasion 
ally a little meat. He was kept strictly in bed on account of 
the Cardiac symptoms which followed any exertion. The bowels 
were kept fairly loose by Saline purgatives, and the heart was 
kept up by alternating doses of Strychnia and Digitalis. 
The change in the mans condition in ten days time was 
quite remarkable. The dropsy had nearly disappeared, and the 
ataxic walk was not nearly as noticeable, nor the Cardiac bruitv 
It was necessary to return him to the ship before he was 
quite well. 
NOTES ON NATIVE PRACTISE AMD SUPERSTITIONS. 
The mortality among puperal women is very great, chiefly 
from Puperal septicaemia. After childbirth a woman will not 
allow cold water to toutch any part of her body, nor will she 
drink any cold water for thirty days. I was called into a case 
some time ago and found the following condition;- A woman 
lying on the floor suffering intense pain from Puperal Feriton- 
itis, the baby 24 hours old. On one side of her kneeling oh the 
floor was a man, and on the other side a woman. Both of them 
had their doubled fists pressed down on the womans abdomen as 
hard as they could bear, and in addition to this a cloth was 
