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tonsils, they are important remedies. In croup 
they are not so serviceable as turpentine. I need 
not observe that they succeed general and topical 
blood-letting in the three first affections. But I 
have never seen any reason to. refrain from the 
simultaneous rubefacient effect of turpentine with 
bleeding. in croup. Hepatitis in its acute or 
chronic state, is another disease in which these ap- 
plications are beneficial. I have seen much bene- 
fit from them in the acute form after the use . 
of the blue pill. In hydrocephalus they appear to 
me never to have any good effects, applied as they 
usually are to the scalp, in its last stages. It is 
a common practice; it is, to say the least of it 
an unnecessary one. If they ever do good in this 
affection which Tam much inclined, from what I 
have seen, to doubt; it is when early applied, 
after the most copious blood-letting. My experi- 
ence with this disease, has not encouraged me to 
place much dependence upon them, even in the 
acute stage. If it ever be an idiopathic inlamma- 
tion of the brain. which causes effusion or at least 
the symptoms of it, as developed in hydrocephalus, 
itis one not likely to be reached, by any remedy 
but general and topical blood-letting. Andon the 
other hand, when it is a symptomatic affection of 
bowel irritation or disorder accompanying denti- 
tion as it is nine times out of ten, blisters are more 
likely to do good to the surface covering the abdo- 
men. This leads me to remark that they are in — 
no affection more important, than in gastritis 
and enteritis, after energetic depletion of the 
sanguiferous system. In dysentery they have 
immemorially been applied either to the abdomen 
or extremities. They often sooth the painful 
distress of the bowels, when applied to the 
_ belly at the very time the patient endures the most 
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