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Chorea St. Viti.
* This disease has been referred to a loss of Tone and consequent
Spasm and accordingly was treated with tonics and
antispasmodics. Dr Hamilton was the first to desert that practice.
The time necessary to perform a cure varies 3, 4, to 6 months.
I once cured a patient by the continuance of cathartics for
6 months, he is now 16 years of age and has not had
a return, those who were not cured had the symptoms
completely removed while under the operation of a cathartic.
No.1

** Typhus. He formerly treated it with nauseating doses of
antimonials, but finding it not to succeed he resorted
to purgatives with the happiest effects, giving Calomel
& Jalap to evacuate largely, thus morbid matter which
is always found pent up in the canal and of a highly
irritating nature is evacuated.

The following is an excellent formula in chorea.
No.1
Rx
Rubig Ferri ℈ij [2 scruples]
Precep Sulp Antim ℈i [1 scruple]
Soccot Alloes Ʒi [1 dram]
Syrup Q.S [sufficient quantity]

M. 24 pills of which
take two every night.
(Townsend)