ad of simple cinnamon-water,
his draughts were prepared with an infusion of columbo root.

12. The _Diarrhoea_ continued; his stools were involuntary; and he
discharged in this way a quantity of black, grumous, and foetid blood.
Pulse hard and quick; skin hot; tongue covered with a dark fur; abdomen
swelled; great stupor. Ten grains of columbo root, and fifteen of the
_Gummi rubrum astringens_ were added to each draught. Fixed air, under
the form of clysters, was injected every second or third hour; and
directions were given to supply the patient plentifully with water,
artificially impregnated with mephitic air. A blister was also laid
between his shoulders.

13. The Diarrhoea continued, with frequent discharges of blood; but
the stools had now lost their foetor. Pulse 120; great flatulence in
the bowels, and fulness in the belly. The clysters of fixed air always
diminished the tension of the _Abdomen_, abated flatulence, and made the
patient more easy and composed for some time after their injection. They
were directed to be continued, together with the medicated water. The
nitre was omitted, and a scruple of the _Confect. Damocratis_ was given
every fourth hour, in an infusion of columbo root.

14. The Diarrhoea was how checked, His other symptoms continued as
before. Blisters were applied to the arms; and a drachm and a half of
the _Tinctura Serpentariae_ was added to each draught.

15. His pulse was feeble, quicker and more irregular. He dosed much;
talked incoherently; and laboured under a slight degree of _Dyspnaea_.
His urine, which had hitherto assumed no remarkable appearance, now
became pale. Though he discharged wind very freely, his belly was much
swelled, except for a short time after the injection of the
air-clysters. The following draughts were then prescribed.

Rx _Camphorae mucilag. G. Arab, solutae gr. viij. Infus. Rad.
Columbo oz. jfs Tinct. Serpent. dr. ij Confect. Card.
scruple j Syr. e Cort. Aurant dr. i m. f. Haust. 4tis horis
sumendus._

Directions were given to foment his feet frequently with vinegar and
warm water.

16. He has had no stools since the 14th. His _Abdomen_ is tense. No
change in the other symptoms. The _Tinct. Serpent._ was omitted in his
draughts, and an equal quantity of _Tinct. Rhaei Sp._ substituted in its
place.

In the evening he had a motion to stool, of which he was for the first
time so sensible, as to give notice to his attendants. But the