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sited it originally” in these affections, without ceremo- 
ny ; but still, with regret that he should have been so 
reckless as to claim a merit, to which he could not, with 
the faintest semblance of nye justify an hare 
Is it not extraordinary, that of this original practice, 
pa fe one solitary word jin his first edition, thou he 
‘shad long known its 
- the native physicians, to cure confirmed lues. And 
ality of practice with arsenic, when he should found 
e that claim upon a point established as a regular Asiatic 
that school, he must have attended two courses of the Doc- 
tor’slectures. Dr. Barton says, ‘*I have had under my care 
a most violent and obstinate case of rheumatism, which 
seemed to owe its origin to syphilis, but which mercurials 
would not cure, which yielded in a short time completely 
to the use of arsenic.” Again: ‘*We sometimes meet 
with venereal cases, to the entire cure of which mercury 
seems unequal. Such are some of the say ae le and — 
distressing ulcers, which sometimes remain atter the open- 
ng of venereal buboes ; in these cases, arsenic will often 
more good any othe r medicine. I mean, arsenic 
given i either in the shape of pills, or Fowler’s 
solution e same time, it may be necessary, in some 
eases, to wash the surface of the ulcer by means of a weak 
solution of arsenic. For we have not yct discovered the 
medicine, which more disposes sores of different kinds to 
- form a good pus, than arsenic. 1 might, with some pro- 
iety, dwell still further on the employment of arsenic, — 
ie eatevent cases. Such as chronic venereal blotches of the 
skin, the leprous-like affections of the skin, originating 
from syphilis, and the like. But I shall conclude, here, 
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