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violent ague on the day of the operation. The ague returned 
next day at the same hour. Mr. O'Shaughnessy considered 
it unsafe to employ quinine under these circumstances, and 
had recourse tonarcotine. Four doses of this medicine were 
given, and Mr. O'Shaughnessy states, " The fever did not re- 
turn; the wound was not in the slightest degree affected; there 
was no excitement or headach produced. After he took the 
first dose he slept soundly, which he had not done the two 
previous nights, and he was discharged cured of the effects of 
the operation on the fourteenth day after its performance." 
Mr. O'Brien, the apothecary of the Native Hospital, re- 
ported three cases; Mr. Evans one; the Pundit Modoosoodona 
Gupta one, all successfully treated. The Pundit's patient 
labored under dysentery at the same time. 
Dr. J. Chapman, assistant-surgeon of the Calcutta General 
Hospital, related the case of a European who contracted vio- 
lent remittent fever at Kedgeree, on the 16th of July, and 
was received in hospital on the 19th. Quinine was used in 
the usual manner on the first remission on the 20th, and again 
on the 21st, but the symptoms were rather aggravated than im- 
proved. The narcotine was then given, and its use was 
speedily followed by a complete remission. From that time 
the fever did not return, with the exception of restlessness 
and slight headach on the evening of the 23d. On the 28th 
all medicines were omitted, and the patient was discharged 
convalescent. 
Dr. O'Shaughnessy further submitted two cases, treated in 
his own house among his servants, both of which were cured. 
Lastly, he communicated fifteen cases, extracted from the 
journals of the Medical College Hospital. In five of these 
cases quinine and arsenic had failed, in eleven there was en- 
largement of the spleen or liver, in one inflammation of the 
knee-joint. Seven of these cases were remittents, and two of 
these had died. Of the two fatal cases one was admitted on 
the seventh day of violent fever and died next day. In the 
second (a child) the spleen, liver, pancreas, and mesenteric 
