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water, and administering to him a emetie. Eberle prefers a combination of tartarized antimony and calomel in the proportions of five or six grains of calomel to one fourth of the tartar emitie, to a child one or two years old, repeated until vomiting is produced. He prefers this combination on account of the protracted nausea, which the calomel seems to induce which I think is of great importance in this disease, because it has such a powerful tendency to subdue inflammation and it relaxes the system and promotes perspiration in a great degree. I think however a combination of tartar emetic with ipecacuanah would be a better prescription than the one just mentioned in the proportion of four or five grains of the latter to one fourth of the former;