102 DISEASES Class 1. 2. 3. 25. 



ternallv. mercurial ointment has been much recommended. 

 Poultice. Oiled filk. Clyfters of broth. Warm bath of broth. 

 Transfufion of blood into a vein three or four ounces a day ? 

 See Oafs III. 1. 1. ij. 



I directed a young woman, about twenty-two years of age, 

 to be fed with new milk put into a bladder, which was tied to a 

 catheter, and introduced beyond the ftritture in her throat ; af- 

 ter a few days, her fpirits funk, and (lie refufed to ufe it further, 

 and died. Above thirty years ago, I propofed to an old gentle- 

 man, whofe throat was entirely impervious, to fupply him with 

 a few ounces of blood daily from an afs, or from the human an- 

 imal, who is ftill more patient and tradable, in the following 

 manner : To fix a filver pipe about an inch long to each extrem- 

 ity of a chicken's gut, the part between the two filver ends to be 

 rneafured by filling it with warm water ; to put one end into 

 the vein of a perfon hired for that purpcfe, fo as to receive the 

 blood returning from the extremity ; and when the gut was quite 

 full, and the blood running through the other filver end, to in- 

 troduce that end into the vein of the patient upwards towards 

 the heart, fo as to admit no air along with the blood. And 

 laftly, to fupport the gut and filver ends on a water-plate, fill- 

 ed with water of ninety-eight degrees of heat, and to meaftire 

 how many ounces of blood was introduced by palling the finger, 

 fo as to comprefs the gut, from the receiving-pipe to the deliv- 

 ering-pipe j and thence to determine how many gut-fulls were 

 given from the healthy perfon to the patient. Mr. con- 

 sidered a day on this propofal, and then another day, and at 

 length anfwered, that " he now found himfelf near the houfe of 

 death ; and that, if he could return, he was now too old to have 

 much enjoyment of life \ and therefore he wiihed rather to pro- 

 ceed to the end of that journey, which he was now lb near, and 

 which he mud at all events foon go, than return for fo fhort a 

 time." He lived but a few days afterwards, and feemed quite 

 carelefs and eafy about the matter. See Suppl. I. 14. 4. 



A difficulty of fwallowing food, and a rejection foon after, of 

 the whole or a part of it, may be often owing probably to a fort 

 of valve made by a part of the membrane which lines the cefoph- 

 agus ; and may thus refemble ftrictures of the urethra; which 

 lafl are fo frequently cured by the nice application of lunar cauf- 

 tic, as defcribed by Mr. Everard Home, in his Treatife on Stric- 

 tures of the Urethra. Siippoie a thick bougie, made of linen 

 fpread with adhefive plafter, and rolled up, was armed at the 

 end with a bit of lunar cauftic, with which the ftricYure of the 

 cefophagus could be touched repeatedly, till an unarmed bougie 

 epuld be paflod readily into the ftomach ? Could fuch a valve be 



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