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not employ more than -J of the quantity resulting from the 
following formula: 
^ Red sulphuret of mercury gr. ij. 
White oxide of arsenic 5 ij. 
Dragon's blood 12 gr. 
Animal charcoal 8 gr. 
This powder was mixed with a little water to form a pap, 
which was spread over the tumor; perceiving that transparent 
lymph oozed from all the openings, the Doctor applied to 
them the preceding powder. The layer of paste was about a 
line in thickness. The diseased surface was left exposed to 
the atmosphere without any other dressing. Six hours after- 
wards reaction commenced; on the 21st in the evening, the 
inflammation had attained its maximum of intensity, the red- 
ness, during the extension of which the patient had suffered 
very great pain, had now taken possession of half the face and 
the eye of the opposite side. 
The integuments of the cranium had however suffered very 
little, and the general condition of the patient appeared suffi- 
ciently satisfactory. An emulsion was nevertheless prescribed 
with cherry laurel water. But in proportion as the redness 
disappeared, an inexpressible uneasiness, extreme anxiety and 
so much dyspnoea supervened, that the patient could not re- 
spire but in the upright position and by forcibly bringing into 
action all the muscles of the thorax. She laboured under a 
sense of constriction about the praecordial region, her tongue 
was covered with thick fur, with intense thirst; sharp colicy 
pains were experienced with desire to go to stool, followed by 
a discharge of pus without any fecal matter. 
To treat these horrible symptoms, Dr Kuchler exhibited 
fifty grains of ipecacuanha in the space of an hour and a half; 
some vomiting of bile, mucus and gastric juice followed, 
brought up with great effort. The violent symptoms continued 
to augment, the patient was delirious if she slept, and salivated 
continually, the root of her tongue was painful and swollen, 
in consequence of which deglutition was difficult, the extremi- 
ties were inclined to become cold, a cold sweat covered her 
