patient has suddenly blossomed
out into a state of robust health that his system was an entire stranger
to before the infection. The writer has, in the course of a long
practice, seen a number of such results follow both the infection
attended with a miliary eruption and that followed by the large
small-pox-appearing eruption, both kinds being preceded by the primary
sore; and these results have been observed in cases of both what are
called the soft and multiple and the hard or Hunterial initial sore.
Some of these cases rapidly gained in flesh, with an evident increase in
the redness of their blood, increasing in vigor and strength with a very
perceptibly less tendency to attacks from accidental or previously
subject-to diseases.

The same result has been observed to follow an attack of small-pox with
some individuals, and the writer well remembers a similar result
following a very extraordinary event. The subject was a man well known
among his old comrades of the First Minnesota Infantry as "Duke," and to
many of the older practitioners of Wabashaw County, of that State, as
"Old Duke." In early life he was sickly and weakly, never having fully
recovered from a malarial fever contracted in the Mexican war. Coming to
Minnesota, he adopted the life of a raftsman, with all the
irregularities that accompanied such a life. On one occasion, after a
protracted spree, feeling the need of stimulation and not having the
wherewith to procure it, he secured a jar in which a snake and several
other reptiles were preserved in spirits, and drank the fluid contents.
He was, some days afterward, taken violently ill with a high fever and
racking pains, ending in an eruption of boils that covered him from head
to foot; he made a slow and tedious recovery; but when recovered he
seemed to have become imbued with a constitution resembling
_lignum-vitae_, for a more stubborn-twisted constitution never existed
than that of "Old Duke." The power of resistance that this man developed
was something wonderful. Dr. C. P. Adams, of Hastings, Minnesota, and
the St. Paul physicians who were connected with the regiment well
remember, though, wiry, precise, and soldierly "Duke," who, even in the
old Army of the Potomac, immersed up to his ears like the rest of the
army in the mud and dirt of the encampment of Falmouth, above
Fredericksburg, came out on general inspection as prim as if he had just
stepped out of a bandbox, for which he received a medal