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To communicate this result of my experiment—was my foremost purpose. 2dly,
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third week.
Drops of Laud.
Mond. July 8 . . . . . . 130
———9 . . . . . . 300
———10 . . . . . .50
———11 Hiatus in
———12 MS.
———13
———14 . . . . . .76
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fourth week.
Drops of Laud.
Mond. July 15 . . . . . .76
———16 . . . . . .7312
———17 . . . . . .7312
———18 . . . . . .70
———19 . . . . . . 240
———20 . . . . . .80
———21 . . . . . . 350
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fifth week.
Drops of Laud.
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
