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Investigation of the Committee of the Legislature of 1881 Concerning the Management of the Maine Insane Hospital Part 2

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than recently; perhaps more inclined to use some [illegible] in cases of diarrhae now than I did in my early practice. Q. You wouldn't be likely, usually, to make use of that A. No, sir, I don't quite say that; I do occasionally now, but not as much as formerly. Q. The testimony here is that that condition induced this miscarriage. Now, in your judgement did it have any thing to do with it A. I have already stated and I state again that I have known cases of miscarriage to come on in connection with diarrhae, so that i regarded the diarrae as an exciting cause. I don't think a small dose of oil and rhubarb would excite a diarrhae sufficiently to produce miscarriage Q. What is a small dose A. A tea spoonful of each Q. How, in a [illegible] of could her condition become apparent when two minutes before it was not apparent at all to Dr. Harlow A. I don't know about the length of time. You understand, if I may be allowed to explain, whenever