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A Negro Woman, belonging to Mr. Forwood, was brought to me, 
fhe had a great many Ulcers in the Extremities of the Fingers and 
Toes, andabout the Joints “There was alfo feveral Bladders fill’d 
with Serum on feveral of her Joints, as if Cantharides had been applied 
there to raife a Blifter. Thefe Bladders or Cuticula fill’d with ferous 
Matter, came either on her Fingers or Toes, every Full and New 
Moon, and in procefs of time each of chele Bladders broughe an 
Ulcer, leaving the Flefh raw, and fometimes deeper, fomerimes 
Shallower corroded, fo thac the longer che Bladders had been rais‘d, 
the deeper were the Ulcerations, “The virulency of the Humour was 
fuch, asthac after it had eaten intothe Bone, the joints of the Fingers 
and Toes would drop cff, and they die, as I have been affur'd by 
thofe who have loft feveral Negros of this Difeafe, 1 was aflured 
was peculiar co Blacks. Her Mafter told me fhe had been ia the 
Of a2 Hands of a great many Phyficians, who had Bled, Purg’d, Sweated, 
ftrange : . : 
Difeate in@7¢- her to che greatelt degree, without any fuccefs. 4 told him, I 
a Black thought Fluxing, or Salivation, bid fairelt for the Cure of this Dileale, 
baer and having got a corner of an Out-houle ready, fhe was therein 
Fingers flux’d by Unction. After awhile fhe was not only fo well that all the 
and Toes, Symptoms of Bladders formerly rifing on Full and Change of the 
ere Moon, did not appear as ufually, but the Ulcers all over her extre- 
Full and miities dry’d up, and were cicatrizd, fo that] did not doubt but all was 
Change of perfectly well, Salivation being a great Remedy in Difeafes where 
the Serum of the Blood is Peccant, either as to quantity or quality, 
I was very much difappointed, when her Mafter told me about 
three Months after, thac her Diftemper was again, on Fuil and 
Change, returnd on her. I concluded that the Salivation had not 
been prolecuted to the heighth, by my judging her Dileafe cured, 
and therefore order’d her cto be fhut up, and {een rub her felf as 
‘direéted. ‘This fecond Salivation was very copious, and fhe well a- 
‘gain. J, notwithftanding, towards the latter end gave her a Vo- 
mit of Turpeth, Min. and continued her Spitting for feveral days 
with Merc. Dalc. and afterwards order’d her a Diet Drink made uf 
the Woods Sarfa, &c. boil’d in Lime-water. This preferv’d her as 
formerly, for {ome time, but did not fecure her from a Relapfe. So 
foon as this Difeafe again appear'd, I thought, that perhaps, this was 
proper to Blacks, and fo might come from fome peculiar indifpo- 
fition of their black Skin. (Knowing nothing more effetual in Cu- 
tancous Difeafes of this Nature than Sulph, Vivum. | made an Oinr- 
ment of this with, Ung. ex Oxylapath, and order’d her the ufe of this 
Liniment on all the difleafed parts. ‘This being done, all was feem- 
ingly relieved, but not without a return as violent as ever of her 
Dittemper Her Mafter being difpleas’d with the loathfome fight of 
her 
