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ing, but the second was retained; he urined this day eleven 
times and had three stools; the saliva was very abundant. 
l«s/ December. No medicine taken; nothing particular; 
urine and saliva less than yesterday. 
2d. The same dose of two and a half drachms given in two 
portions. The urine was passed sixteen times; he had three 
stools. The saliva was in less quantity. 
3d. He rested. The urine and saliva in an increased pro- 
portion. 
4th. Two drachms and fifteen grains were administered, 
which was all that remained of the Cuichunchulli; the effects 
and other circumstances were the same as on the preceding 
days. 
From this time, the copious secretions of the organs above 
mentioned diminished gradually in quantity, till the patient 
returned to the state in which he had been at his commencing 
with this medicine; no other improvement of his diseased 
condition having been felt, than that the redness of the skin 
over the face was lessened around the eyes only, and that he 
perceived a slight degree of feeling and of perspiration over 
the skin of his left foot, which he had not had previously. 
(Signed) M. de Aroche. 
Maracaybo, 30th January, 1834.. 
From the preceding Diaries it will be seen that the remedy 
was discontinued in both the cases from the stock of it on 
hand having been all expended. It seems, however, that be- 
sides what Messrs. Casanova had spared to Puche, they ge- 
nerously forwarded a larger portion of it to Caracas for a 
young lady named Maria Antonia Macpherson, who was like- 
wise affected with the Mai de San Lazaro, and who was there 
treated with it under the care of Dr. Don Carlos Arvelo. As 
her case has been published in an official report concerning the 
Cuichunchulli, which was presented to the Venezuelian Go- 
vernment by the College or "Facultad Medica" of Caracas, 
and printed in the Gazette of that city, of the 18th January, 
1834, which is now before me, I think it right to cite this 
