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for many others, in which the experience of mod- 
ern practitioners has found them serviceable. They 
are surgical as well as medical remedies. Hence 
we find them used with efficacy in scrophulous af- 
fections of the joints, particularly those of the hips: 
by some along the spine in some place contigu- 
eus to diseased verterbre. They are also used for 
gutta serena: incipient cataract. Their n : 
application is for various opthalmic affectior “3 
ness, Chronic rheumatism ; rigidity and obstinate 
inflammation of the joints from this cause ; to 
the back near the sacrum, for what is called sci- 
atica; to the same place, for nymphomania; to 
the spine for epilepsy and palsy ; to the back of 
the neck for tetanus, in which Dr. Hartshorne of 
this city has been successful in several cases by these 
means ; to the same site for chorea, in which I 
can, from experience, attest their efficacy ; to the 
side for chronic enlargements of the liver and in 
protracted pneumonic disease threatening phthisis ; 
to the neck for vertigo, hemicrania, hebetude and 
habitual somnolency in phlegmatic constitutions ; 
as succedanei for long continued eruptions sud- 
denly suppressed, by reason of which the general 
health has become impaired—and for habitual 
hemorrhoidal flux, the spontaneous cessation of 
which has been followed by a similar state of gen- 
eral indisposition or disorder. Dr. Rogers has 
employed them with success to prevent habitual 
abortion and in leucorrhea and menorrhagia. . 
Numerous other affections of an anomalous charac- 
ter accompanied with deep seated pain, from occult 
causes, are relieved by the salutary agency of these 
drains. The caustic issue is, in general, prefered 
to the pea-issue, in fleshy parts; the latter being 
mostly used near the part affected, in articular 
derangement or disease. I bave hada great deal 
