1 to the -above-mentioned custom. All was legally signed b' thw
2 parties an;l witnesses. I caused the troublesome spectators to
3 withdraw, as by their thronging around the bed they occasioned
4 disturbance and confusion, and only permitted four of them to
5 remain as attendants. Then 1 was able to reflect, and found
6 that the patient had been wrongly treated by his former phy¬
7 sicians, and so reduced to a most pitiable condition.
8 They had copiously bled him unnecessarily, and, led by a false
9 diagnosis, they had prescribed him a quantity, of directions and
10 purgatives. I learned from the attendants, that bur days pre¬
11 viously the patient was constipated, which occasioned him to tail
12 into a state of insensibility. I found it necessary to commence
13 my treatment with a lenitive clyster, which did not fail to have
14 its good effect; 1 afterwards ordered the room to be aired,
15 sprinkled the patient's face with vinegar mixed with rose-water,
16 and ordered his feet to be warmed by friction.
17 At ton in the evening I applied a blister on the nape, and
18 administered a compound opiate powder, which was given in a
19 strong dose. I put it into his mouth, rinsed it from his tongue,
20 after which be began to perspire, and passed a tolerably quiet
21 night. The beneficial result was owing to the properly propor¬
22 tioned mixture of the opium, ns I afterwards experienced in many
23 cases, whilst a lesser dose (1—2 grams opimn) made the malady
24 worse, liy this process die patient was aved. (An the day of
25 the recovery of the bishop, 1 had an opportunity to cuie another
26 patient, which occasioned a great sensation. The sexton of the
27 patriarch wa- troubled with a tertian-ague. It was ihe fever c/itu,
28 <*»d the patient complained of feeling dizzy, want of appetite, a
29 hitter taste in his mouth ; he looked very ill, and the white of his
30 eyes was rat hr of a yellow colour. I ordered him an emetic, he
31 vomited, and a long tape-worm was expelled, which I drew until
32 it broke. On giving hint a second dose of solution of tartar-
33 emetic, it operated, and caused the ejection of the rest of tlte
34 worm by an evacuation. I ordered the pieces of the ejected
35 worm to be washed. I measured them afterwards, and they were
36 fifty-two yards long. 1 found among them three heads, anti I