ere given him for four days, during which time he took
about half a handful. These leaves had been gathered about eight days,
and the winter was far advanced. The excrements, which are naturally
green and well formed, became, from the first, liquid and reddish,
like those of a dysenteric patient.

The animal refusing to eat any more of this mixture which had done him
so much mischief, I was obliged to feed him with bran and water only;
but notwithstanding this, he continued drooping, and without appetite.
At times he was seized with convulsions, so strong as to throw him
down; in the intervals he walked as if drunk; he did not attempt to
perch, he uttered plaintive cries. At length he refused all
nourishment. On the fifth or sixth day the excrements became as white
as chalk; afterwards yellow, greenish, and black. On the eighteenth
day he died, greatly reduced in flesh, for he now weighed only three
pounds.

On opening him we found the heart, the lungs, the liver, and
gall-bladder shrunk and dried up; the stomach was quite empty, but not
deprived of its villous coat. _Hist. de l'Academ._ 1748. _p._ 84.

EPILEPSY.--"It hath beene of later experience found also to be
effectual against the falling sicknesse, that divers have been cured
thereby; for after the taking of the _Decoct. manipulor. ii. c.
polypod. quercin. contus. [Symbol: ounce]iv. in cerevisia_, they that
have been troubled with it twenty-six years, and have fallen once in a
weeke, or two or three times in a moneth, have not fallen once in
fourteen or fifteen moneths, that is until the writing hereof."

_Parkinson_, _p._ 654.

SCROPHULA.--"The herb bruised, or the juice made up into an ointment,
and applied to the place, hath been found by late experience to be
availeable for the King's Evill." PARK. p. 654.

Several hereditary instances of this disease said to have been cured
by it. AEREAL INFLUENCES, _p._ 49, 50, quoted by HALLER, _hist. n._
330.

A man with _scrophulous ulcers_ in various parts of the body, and
which in the right leg were so virulent that its amputation was
proposed, cured by _succ. express. cochl. i. bis intra xiv. dies, in
1/2 pintae cerevisiae calidae_.

The leaves remaining after the pressing out of the juice, were applied
every day to the ulcers. _Pract. ess. p._ 40. quoted by MURRAY
_apparat. medicam. i. p._ 491.

A young woman with a _scrophulous tumour of the eye_, a remarkable
_swe