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{he had given any thing to this Child for the Worms. She told me 
Ofa fle had, and that one for that purpofe had given her a Powder. 
Tae Defiring to {ee it, fhe fhew’d me a Paper wherein was a great deal 
lite by of Merc. Dulce. Left the Child fhould be choakt by the topping of 
ania the Salivation, I order’d ic to be kept moderately wari, and to be 
Mevcsixe bled to fix Ounces, and after that to take fome Diagridium to make 
Dulcis. a Revulfion, and carry the humours off by Stool. I order’d her af- 
rerwards to apply Empl. Diachyl. cum gum. to all the lumps to ripen 
chem. I defir’d chey fhould have a care of opening them on the 
outfide by Incifion, left Scars might follow, and make the Face all 
over deform’d and ugly, for in tuch cafe the more the Child grew, 
the greater would be the Scars. If {mall Tumours break without 
a Knife or Cauftic, there is not fo much danger of marks, With 
Diagridium Purges now and then given, the Face leflened, came ia 
fhape, and was pretty well, and by the application of the Plaifter, 
the lumps ripened and broke one after another, and the Child was 
well without fo much as the appearance of a Scar. If Merc. Dulc. 
be mix’d in a larger quanticy with Jalap, or other purging Powders, 
after the Powder has been ftir’d, and fome Dofes taken out, the Merc. 
Dulc. being heavier, goes to the bottom, and fo confequently, af- 
ter fome time, is taken in larger proportion than the Purgers, and oc. 
cafions fuch Accidents as Salivation, ¢c. “This preparation of Mer- 
cury likewife acquires a bad Corrofive quality by lying long in the 
Air, and fo does Antimoninm Diaphoreticum get an Emetic quality. 
A Jean {pare Woman, aged about Fifty, complain’d very much 
Of agid- of a giddinefs inher Head. She told me that when fhe was in the 
dinefsin  Fortieth Year of her Age her Men/true Purgationes had left her, and 
the Head. that then fhe began to be out of order, She had had the Catamenia 
firft at Eleven. 1 gave her fome Sp. C.C. thrice a day, and would 
have bled her, but that her weaknefs was a Contra-Indication. With 
that Spiric fhe recovered. | 
Mrs. Pain, aged about Thirty five years, was taken very ill 
of a Fever, with which fhe had perpetual Vomitings and Stools, 
Of aFe- Without any refpite. She being in fome time very much weakned 
ver and by it, I gave her fome Landanum at night in a Bolus with T heriac. 
ries Androm, but it had no fuccefs. I orderd her to drink great quan- 
"tities of Watergruel to wath away the Caufe, and then gave her 
again fome eafie Opiat,which,neverthelefs,fucceeded nor. I then gave 
her great quantities of Sal Prunell, by which fhe was much reliev'd 
of her vomiting, and was in fome time by keeping a cool Regimen 
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