212 ENQUIRY inro THe CAUSE or 
may be excepted from this diretion. Nature, which 
made man and thefe animals, equally neceflary to each 
other’s fubfiftence, has kindly prevented any inconveni- 
ence from their living together. On the contrary, to re- 
pay the hufbandman for affording a fhelter to thefe ufe- 
ful and helplefs animals, nature has done more. She has 
endowed their dung with a power of deftroying the effects 
of marfh exhalations, and of preventing fevers. The 
miferable cottagers in Europe who live under the fame 
roof, and in fome inftances in the fame room with their 
cattle, are always healthy. In Philadelphia, fevers are lefs 
known in the neighbourhood of livery ftables, than in 
any other part of the city. I could mentiona family that 
has lived near thirty years near a livery ftable in a fickly 
part of the city, that has never known a fever but from 
the meafles or {mall-pox. 
N° XXVI. 
An Account of the late Dr. HucH Martin’s Cancer 
Powder, with brief Obfervations on Cancers. By BEN- 
JAMIN Rusu, M. D. Ge. Ge. 
pepe FEW years ago acertain Dr. Hugh Mar- 
tin, a furgeon of one of the Pennfylvania 
regiments ftationed at fort Pitt, during the latter part of 
the late war, came to this city, and advertifed to cure can- 
cers with a medicine which he faid he had difcovered in 
the woods, in the neighbourhood of the garrifon. As 
Dr. Martin had once been a pupil of mine, I took the li- 
berty of waiting upon him, and afked him fome queftions 
refpecting his difeovery. His anfwers were calculated to 
make me believe, that his medicine was of a vegetable 
nature, and that it was originally an Indian remedy. He 
fhewed 
