REMARKABLE CASES IN PRACTICE. 
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Remember that up to the present time the patient had not 
eaten a mouthful of anything of her own accord, or drank a 
drop of water, nor had she laid down since the third day. 
There is no need of my telling you that I was about as dis¬ 
couraged a mortal as you could find. Nothing that I had done 
(and I had done a lot) seemed to do any good, and I wondered 
why she did not die, still I felt it would reflect on me more to 
have her die after being in my hospital two weeks than if she 
had died on the start. 
I had tried her with every imaginable kind of feed,— carrots, 
corn, oats, meal, turnips' apples, cabbages, bread, etc., in fact 
everything I could think of, and still she would only smell of it 
and turn away. 
I left her at 11 p. m. of the twelfth day, completely dejected 
ana tired of trying to do anything for her, and with my mind 
fully made up that anything more I gave her would be a waste 
of material, as nothing could save her. 
Her pulse was just about imperceptible, and as she looked 
at me as I stood tubbing her nose, I thought I had never seen 
so anxious a countenance before, in fact it made me feel sick. 
Her general appearance was of a skeleton, with the hide 
drawn over it. 
As I passed through the kitchen on my way to bed, I saw a 
raw potato lying on the table; I involuntarily picked it up, went 
back to the patient, and held it up to her, and what a surprise, 
instead of turning away after smelling it, she eat it with a great 
relish. I went back into the house, and filling my pockets with 
potatoes, returned to the patient, and she eat them all with 
eagerness. Well I knew the crisis had passed, and I was as 
happy as I had previously been dejected. 
Next morning she eat a little oats and took a drink of water, 
and that night about i i o’clock, she passed the first faeces 
since she was taken sick, making twelve days without eating a 
mouthful or drinking a drop of water, and thirteen days without 
a movement of the bowels. 
from that time her recovery was very rapid, the owner 
