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thing altered, only he felt no pain in it: I 
was then ordered to give him the pil. Athi- 
opic; and decoé#. lignor. after the ufe of which, 
for above a month, he began to feel fome 
ftinging pains in the node, and even through 
the whole leg, which daily increafed. I 
had read the hiftory of your alterative pills 
fome time before: and, judging they might 
- be more forcible than the pi/. A’tbiopre. in re- 
moving thefe fymptoms, and the remains of 
the diftemper; I hinted the fame to the Do- 
étor, and he chearfully agreed to ufe the one 
in place of the other. I fhall here obferve 
that the firft falivation was raifed with /crup. 
iv. of merc. duic. and that he only fwallowed 
ferup. vii. through the courfe of the other; 
by which it would appear that that medicine, 
had by no means become familiar to him. I 
prepared your pills precifely as directed in 
' Medical Effays vol. 1. art. vi.; only inftead of 
calomel, 1 took the fame quantity of merc. 
dulc. and indeed of the fame kind with 
which I had raifed the laft falivation: and, 
having divided the mafs, as there is alfo di- 
reGted, I ordered him to take three pills morn- 
ing and evening with a draught decoé#. lignor. 
after each dofe, and to drink plentifully of 
the 
