334 NOTES TO THE 



of Chitignano, and the holy water of Chianciano in 

 Tuscany ; 8. the acidulous, couimonly called red 

 water of the environs of Viterba. 



(9ij) For example, the water of Coldogno near 

 Lecco, the waters of Irmia, of the river Mela, of 

 that commonly called Biisana in Valtrompia, the 

 water of Rio in the island of Elba, etc. 



(96) See Wedel, Jlmoemtates materiae medi- 

 cae, Jenae, 17^1? p« '^7l» Hoffmann, Medicinara- 

 tionalis Systematica, tome iv, j^cirt V, j?. 8ii. Van^ 

 JJoevereUf Dissert, de vermibus intest. homimim, 

 etc. BagliviiiSp Opera, ed, ix, Antwerpiae, 1719> 

 4°. p. 60. 



(97) Mercury introduced into the living stom- 

 ach and intestines of man is oxidized ; by taking 

 from the animal substance the oxidizing principle, 

 if certainly renders it less energetic. 



This assertion is not made at random, as some- 

 body has imagined, when I mentioned it for the first 

 time in the Anatripsologia, vol. i. §> XXXIII, p^ 

 86. In a case of volvulus (iliac passion) which I 

 treated with mercury in the civil Hospital of Crema, 

 I obtained from the excrements of the patient, a true 

 black oxide of mercury. A young lady of this city, ^ 

 seized with a violent inflammation of tiie intestines, 

 took four ounces of mercury every day for a fort- 

 night. On examining her excrements, 1 obtained 

 from them two scruples and a half of black oxide of 

 mercury. 



By this remedy we arrested repeated inflamraa- 

 tlon of the bowels, tending to a general sphacelus 



