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membranes cf the internal ear frequently occur in. children, who 

 flcep in cold rooms, or near a cold wall, without a night-cap, 

 If the bones a~e aftetled, they come out in a long procefs of time; 

 and the child remains deaf of that ear. But in this cafe there is 

 generally a fever attends this inflammation ; and it then belongs 

 to another genus. 



M. M. A warmer night-cap. Warmifh water iliou'd be 

 gentlv fyringed into the ear, to keep it clean, twice a day ; and 

 if it does not heal in a week, a little fpirit of wine mould be 

 added •, iirfl about a fourth part, and it ihould be gradually in- 

 creafed to half rectified fpirit and half water : if it continues 

 loner todifcharge matter with a very putrid fmell, the bones are 

 injured, and will in time find their exit ; dtiri'ng which time 

 the ear ihould b*e kept clean, by filling it with a weaker mixture 

 of fpirit of wine and water, or a folution of alum in water ; 

 which may be poured into the ear, as the head is inclined, and 

 fhook out again by turning the head, two or three times morn- 

 ing and evening. See Clafs II. 1. 4. 10. 



9. Fijlula Iacrymalis. The lacrymalfack, with its pun ft a lac- 

 f ymalia and nafai duel, are liable to be deftroyed by fuppuration 

 without fever ; the tears then run over the eyelids, and inflame 

 the edges of them and the cheeks, by their perpetual moiflure 

 and faline acrimony. 



M. M. By a nice furgical operation, a new aperture is to be 

 made from the internal corner of the eye into the noliril, and a 

 iilver tube introduced, which fupplies the defect by admitting 

 the tears to pafs again into the noftril. See Melanges de Chir- 

 urgie, par m. Pouteau ; who thinks he has improved this oper- 

 ation. 



ic. Fifiula iti aho. A mucous difeliarge from the anus, call- 

 ed by fome white piles, or matter from a fuppurated pile, has 

 been miftaken for the matter from a concealed rrfttila. A bit of 

 cotton-wool applied to the'fundament to receive the matter, and 

 renewed twice a day for a week or two, mould always be ufed 

 before examination with the probe. The probe of an uhfktlful 

 empyric fometimes does more harm in the loofe cellular mem- 

 brane of thefe parts than the original ulcer,- by making a fiftula 

 he did not find. The cure of a fiftula in ano, of thole who have 

 been much addicted to drinking fpiritucus liquor, or who have 

 a tendency to pulmonary confurnp'tion, is frequently of danger- 

 ous confequence, and is fucceeded by ulcers of the lungs, and 

 death, 



M. M. W ard's pafle, or 20 black pepper-corns taken after 

 each m#al twice a day; the pepper-corns ihould be cut each in- 

 to two or three pieces, The lace Dr. Munro, of Edinburgh,- 

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