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however, consider ship fever, as precisely identi- 
cal with the typhus of Armstrong. I have in the 
alms-house of this city, and in private practice 
met with and treated, the fever that author so 
admirably describes ; but on ship-board, and at 
the lazeretto, and in fever wards established under 
my care for the reception of army recruits during 
eur war, I have alone met with the typhus gravior 
of Cullen, orship, jail, or camp fever. In these sit- 
uations I have repeatedly used and profited by 
- diaphoretics. In the disease of Armstrong Ihave 
depended more on early blood-letting and long 
continued purgative medicines in small doses. 
‘The skin returned to its duty after, or during the 
use of these means. se 
Plague has been universally treated by diapho- 
yetic remedies; yet Chenot deprecates, and De Mer- 
tens, who wrote of the plague of Moscow, of 1771, 
emits to mention these as remedies. We fortunate- 
_ ly know nothing of the disease. In diabetes, a di- 
sease I have never treated, and only twice seen, 
cases have been reported of their curative effect ; 
but these appear to be insulated. Many authors 
speak favourably of them in dropsy ; to me there 
appears so much more obvious.a path to pursue, 
‘in attempts to cure this disease, that I shall dis- 
iniss this part of the subject by the remark, that, 
though diaphoretics may occasionally be useful, 
here, it will be more by accidental propriety, than 
a general necessity attendant on the disease. 
For my own part, I have never attached impor- 
tance to their use in this disease, general or local. 
In syphilitic rheumatism and syphiloid disease, 
in mercurial disease, and in siphylis, diaphoretics 
form a part of the general practice of our time. 
The details of this subject will be entered on fully 
in these lectures, under the head of the particular 
