I hope we shall get the better of her com¬
plaints.

I still think the bark may be of service. I
think it has at least done no harm & surely had
no share in the loss of strength that happened.
I think it the more necessary to repeat the trial
now that she is liable to these faintish fits as you
call them tho I judge them to be rather hysteric I
would begin to give the bark early in the morning &
give two scruples every hour till eleven o clock or till twelve if no
fit comes on sooner & unless some circustance occur to
interrupt this course I would continue it for two or three
days together & if it even postpones the faintish fits
you may expect it will put them away altogether. I
will not say that the flores Zinci may not be given best
I have no such opinion of them as to prefer them to the
course of bark. I am much pleased with your having
employed the Elixir Paregoricum. I think it has
done service & since the pulse has become slower you
may employ it very often providing you can take care
by glysters, by James's powder or other laxatives to
obviate costiveness. I think of other measures if they
shall seem necessary but I wish first to hear from
you on account of the effects of the bark.