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CASE 111.—Chill; remitting fever; slight diarrhœa;
moist skin; flabby tongue; rose-spots on 15th day;
drowsiness; perspirations; sordes; record imperfect;
death.—Evening: Skin warm, dry; tongue flabby
and coated white; four thin small stools, but no pain or
tenderness in the bowels; appetite fair. Dover's powder at
night. On the 6th and 7th the symptoms were unchanged. On
the 8th the mind was somewhat dull; the patient continued to
be up and to walk about occasionally. Sugar of lead and
opium were given. No material change took place until the
11th, when the warm and moist skin showed sudamina and some
rose-colored spots on the abdomen, the tongue at this time
being pale, flabby and coated gray, the bowels but slightly
relaxed and the appetite good. Whiskey-punch was