390 ESSAYS ann OBSERVATIONS 
CAR Tic KV. 
The Hiftory of a Cure performed by large Dofes 
of an alterative mercurial Medicine, \com- 
municated to Dr PLumMMER; by Mr 
GeorGce DENNIsTouN Surgeon in Fal- 
kirk. 
BOUT the month of December 1737, 
a gentleman applied to me for cure: he 
complained, that, for fome time paft, he 
had felt pricking pains in feveral parts of his 
body, efpecially about his fhoulders and fhin- 
bones, which were now become intolerable. 
He had dry fcurfy fcabs over the whole in- 
fide of the thighs, the glands of both groins 
were a little tumified ; and hard crufty {cabs 
were here and there fcattered upon the /cro- 
tuim, hips, and about the podex. From thefe, 
and other circumftances, I had no reafon to 
doubt that my patient’s diftemper was the 
veneral /ues; upon which, I raifed a faliva- 
tion with merc. dulc. in the courfe whereof, 
all the fymptoms gradually difappeared. I then 
put him upon a courfe of the pil. Zrbiopic. 
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