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 Should all these be inutile; he then insisted on an adhibition, as a succedaneum, of an aposem of radicals and corticals,which depurated of its faeces by percolation, and dulcorated, would lose its injucundity and be totally innocuous. With this aposem, should be connected deobstruents and emetics. Ingeminations of phlebotomy should be protracted until the invalitudinary became exsanguious and evanid, or autoptically exanimate. And should he from sudorifics, venesections, and cutaneous appliances, become sweltry, adhibitions of aqueous aspersions upon the epidermis, should be sedulously secured.

He asseverated that these medicamental appliances would have the most salutiferous syndrome, and that, after an imminution of the patient's obesity, his abstersed and subtiliated system might be instaurated with cardiacs. He reiterated the asseveration, that, from his cognoscence of angiography, anthropology and nosology, the employment of this pharmacy would make sanation certain, and he impignorated his veracity, that the patients would soon be invested with an almost immarcessible floriage, and that in his supputation with them he should not be scrutinous about lucriferous guerdon.

But in direct oppugnancy to all this, the maladies were mortiferous, and some of the puisne folks made their exit into the world of sprites.

The amethodist's medicamenta were so narcotic that the victims of his indexterity in the ultimity of their terrestrial vitality, were favored with euthanasy. The hilarity of the nuptial epulation merged into lugubrious aspects; resplendent habiliments were succeeded by the sable paraphernalia of obsequies, and the cantata of joviality were followed by funereal lachrymations.

The medicus commingled with the suspiring throng