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 three weeks ago. Since that time the child's health has been on the decline, and she has complained of great pains in the bowels and loss of appetite, succeeded by frequent evening exacerbations of fever, and grinding of the teeth during sleep, &c. About ten days ago, she first felt pain in her head, which has since been followed by stupor and convulsions. At the period my attention was drawn to the case, she had been relieved by the repeated application of leeches to the head, and the continued use of calomel, to which I added the friction of the tartar emetic ointment upon the arms and thighs, wishing to re-produce an eruption on those parts. The relief (if relief it might be called) continued but for a day or two, for the stupor increased, the pulse became weaker, and general convulsions followed, terminating in death. In other instances I have observed a less degree of cerebral irritation to follow the disappearance of the cutaneous symptoms; other viscera, the lungs, liver, and alimentary canal, become the seat of disordered action, even in children, who appeared, previously, free from disease in this respect. Take, for instance, one of the earliest of the infantile eruptions, the strophulus intertinctus, which is not always accompanied or preceded by any disorder of the constitution, but appears, occasionally, in the strongest and most healthy children. Even this cannot always be suppressed with impunity. We cannot explain the mysterious play of sympathy existing between the skin and the abdominal viscera, yet every one has noticed the various consecutive derangements of the functions of the bowels, which result from such repelled eruptions. In one, it will