stance, Dr. Guthrie formed the resolution of giving the 
flowers of zinc, with what he calls an empiric boldness, - 
ordering eight grains of that medicine the first day, with 
eonserve of roses, and augmenting the dose by four grains 
every fourth day, till the thirty-second from the attack, 
when it amounted to two scruples, which the patient took 
consecutively for a month, at the end of which time every 
vestige of the disease disappeared. Although Dr. Guthrie 
thought it prudent te continue this large dose of the medi- 
cine so long, no disagreeable consequences attended its 
exhibition, except a trifling nausea towards the beginning, 
which soon went off. A celebrated surgeon of Edinburgh 
prescribed with advantage this medicine in a co 
epilepsy, which had existed for ten years; and also in ano- 
ther, in which the fits were preceded by an aura epileptica. 
This medicine has also been recommended by Dr. Haygarth 
of Chester, and Dr. White of York. Dr. Cullen, however, 
has not found zine useful in these cases; nor can 1, from 
my own experience, speak in its favour in epilepsy, al- 
' though I have found it beneficial in chorea sancti Viti, and 
other nervous diseases.” 
n é ordi pOrr-eueto.ten or twelve 
—, though Dr. Donald Monro says that he has seen 
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= quoted, bears the London imprint of March, 1794, near 
34 years ago.* Sig suiey 
*I feel myself bound to notice these points, beeause Tam bound to teach the 
truth, on all the details of my subjcet, and bccausc Dr. Chapman pee pee Hos 
one under the necessity of noucing then, by his own voluntary presentation of him- 
