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Credit: A treatise on relapsing or famine fever / by R.T. Lyons. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![14t]i.—B. not open. Pulse quick. 01. ricini, 5j, Cont. med. 15tli.—Medicine acted twice, and lie feels better. No fever. Cont. pilulas ter die. I7tli.—B. moderately open. Cont. med. 19tli.—Better. Cont. med. 20tli.—Improving. 24tli.—Has frequent purging of pale thin faeces. Bhei, mag. carb., aa., gr. xv.; aq. mentliae pip., giss.; now. Purged often in the day. Pil. byd., gr. x.; ext. opii, gr. j.; b. s. 25tb.—Seven or eigbt stools at nigbt. Tinct. kino, 5j. ; mist, cretse, §j.; tinct. opii gtt. x.; ter die. Kept. pil. b. s. 26tb.—Pulse quick and skin bot tbis morning. Bowels continue relaxed: be does not retain tbe cbalk mixture. Pul. ipecac, co., gr. x. ; ter die. PiL b. s. 27tb.—Stools less frequent. Cont. med. 28tb.—Ditto. 29tb.—B. still relaxed. Five or six stools in tbe nigbt, of pale matter. Pil. byd., gr. iv.; ipecac, gr. j.; ext. cin- cbonae, gr. iv.; rbei. pul v., gr. j.; ter die. 30tb.—Better. Cont. 1st December.—Often at stool. Add opii, gr. ^, to eacb dose of pills. 2nd.—Better. Cont. 3rd.—Four stools. Feels better. Cont, Wine, mea- sures ij. 4tb.—Only two stools at nigbt. Cont. 6tb.—Four stools at nigbt of curdy matter. Cont. pilL Bbei. et mag. carb., aa. gr. xvj.; pulv. zingib., gr. iij,; now. 9tb.—Medicine acted three or four times. Cont. pill. loth.—Improving. Bowels quiet. Cont. pill. 18th.—General health improving. Two stools. Some pain at tbe right side. Cont. pill. Bbei etmag. carb., aa. Bj. Now. 22nd.—Cont. pil. om. nocte. Inf. gent, co., gij.; quinas s., gr. j. ; bis die. 29tb.—Much better. Cont. med. No further entry made, and the diagnosis was not noted. Case III.—Reported by Twining. X](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21987403_0321.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
