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 To communicate this result of my experiment—was my foremost purpose. 2dly,

Mond. July 8 130

9 300

10 50

11 Hiatus in

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14 76

Mond. July 15 76

16 73

17 73

18 70

19 240

20 80

21 350

Mond. July 22 60

23 none

24 none

25 none

26 240

27 none

What mean these abrupt relapses, the reader will ask perhaps, to such numbers as 300—350, &c.? The impulse to these relapses was mere infirmity of purpose: the motive, where any motive blended with this impulse, was either the principle of "reculer pour mieux sauter;" (for under the torpor of a large dose, which lasted for a day or two, a less quantity satisfied the stomach—which, on awaking, found itself partly accustomed to this new ration): or else it was this principle—that of sufferings otherwise equal those will be borne best which