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WANDERINGS IN 
THIRD 
JOURNEY. 
informed me that the sun was now fast approaching 
to the eastern horizon. I arose, in languor and in 
pain, the pulse at one hundred and twenty. I took 
ten grains of calomel and a scruple of jalap, and 
drank during the day large draughts of tea, weak 
and warm. The physic did its duty; but there was 
no remission of fever or head-ach, though the pain 
of the back was less acute. I was saved the trouble 
of keeping the room cool, as the wind beat in at 
every quarter. 
At five in the evening the pulse had risen to one 
hundred and thirty, and the head-ach almost insup¬ 
portable, especially on looking to the right or left. 
I now opened a vein, and made a large orifice, to 
allow the blood to rush out rapidly ; I closed it after 
losing sixteen ounces. I then steeped my feet in 
warm water, and got into the hammock. After 
bleeding, the pulse fell to ninety, and the head was 
much relieved; but during the night, which was 
very restless, the pulse rose again to one hundred 
and twenty, and at times the head-ach was distress¬ 
ing. I relieved the head-ach from time to time, by 
applying cold water to the temples, and holding a 
wet handkerchief there. The next morning the fever 
ran very high, and I took five more grains of calo¬ 
mel and ten of jalap, determined, whatever might be 
the case, this should be the last dose of calomel. 
About two o’clock in the afternoon the fever remitted, 
and a copious perspiration came on; there w r as no 
more head-ach, nor thirst, nor pain in the back, and 
the following night was comparatively a good one. 
