4fi DISEASES Class I. 1.4. 13, 



oiled leathers fhoulcl be nicely put round the joints of the ma- 

 chine ; and a wet cloth round the injecting pipe to prevent the 

 return of the fmoke by the fides of it. Clyfters of carbonated 

 hydrogen gas, or of other factitious airs, might be tried ; or of 

 the hairs of filiqua hirfuta. 



Harrowgate water taken into the ftomach, fo as to induce fix 

 or feven (tools every morning, for four or fix weeks, is perhaps 

 the mod efficacious method in common ufe. A factitious Har- 

 rowgate water may be made probably of greater efficacy than 

 the natural, by diflblving one ounce of marine fait, (called bay 

 fait) and half an ounce of magnefia Glauber's fait, (called Epfom 

 fait, or bitter purging fait) in twenty-eight ounces of water. A 

 quarter or half a pint of this is to be taken every hour, or two 

 hours in the morning, till it operates, with a tea-fpoonful of a 

 folution of liver of fu'phur, which is to be made by putting an 

 ounce of hepar fulphuiis into half a pint of water. See Clafs 

 IV. 1. 2. 9. 



13. Dracunculus. A thin worm brought from the coaft of 

 Guinea. It is found in the interfaces of the mufcles, and is 

 many yards long j it makes a fmall ulcer •, which is cured by 

 extracting an inch of the worm a day, and wrapping the extract- 

 ed part flowly round a bit of tobacco-pipe till next day, fo as not 

 to break it. I have twice feen long worms, like a thick horfe 

 hair, in water in July in this .country, which appeared hard and 

 jointed. 



14. Morpioms. Crab-lice. The excrement of this animal 

 (tains the linen, and appears like diluted blood. 



M. M. Spirit of wine. Mercurial ointment, (having the part. 

 Oil destroys other infers, if they be quite covered with it, as the 

 ticks on dogs, and would probably therefore deftroy thefe. Its 

 manner of operation is by flopping up or filling their fpiracula, 

 or breathing pores ; a few drops of oil poured en a wafp, fo as 

 to cover it, deftroy it in a few feconds. 



15. Pediculi. Lice. There is faid to be a difeafe, in which 

 thefe animals are propagated in indeftru£tible numbers, fo as to 

 deftroy the patient. 



M. M. Cleanlinefs, mercurial ointment, ftavisacriain powder, 

 or the tincture of it in fpirit of wine. Spirit of wine alone. ? 

 J3ath of oil ? 



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