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and decoétion of the woods; by which means, 
he fedming to be very well, I flattered my- 
felf that the difeafe was intirely eradicated. 
He had no complaints for above twelve 
months; but then he began to feel the old 
pricking pains, efpecially in his legs; and, in 
a fhort time, he difcovered a fwelling on the 
“ moft prominent part of his fhin-bone, about 
the bignefs of a walnut, tho’ flat; with 
fuch fcabs, &c. as were formerly mention- 
ed: and all this (as he told me) without rea- 
fon to fufpect a new infection. 
In fhort, he applied to me a fecond time, 
and having advifed with a phyfician,. very 
eminent in his profeffion, he defired me to 
put him upon a new courfe of merc. dulc. but 
to give fuch {mall dofes, at fuch intermediate 
lg as to raife the falivation very flow- 
ly; and when once raifed to the quantity 
of lib. iii. or lib. iv. ina day, to keep it up 
at that rate, by now and then dropping in a 
bolus, for two months at leaft; and, at the 
fame time, to anoint the node on his. {hin- 
bone with ung. mercurial. dc. I followed his 
— directions punctually; and; indeed, all the 
fs 
fymptoms went gradually off, except the 
- forementioned node, which was little or no- 
thing 
