sSo ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



Art. XV. 



J^ particular Method of giving the Solution 

 of Corrofive Sublimate Mercury in fmall 

 Dofesj as an Anthelmintic, by John 

 Gardiner, M^ D. and Felloiv of the 

 Royal College ofPhyJtcians in Edinburgh *. 



SOME years ago, when the folutioa 

 ot the corrofive fiibHmate mercury 

 in malt fpirits came to be in general ufe, 

 for the cure of the venereal difeafe, con- 

 ceiving a good opinion of it, from the 

 deferved high characfler of the Baron 

 Van Swieten, who recommended it to 

 the public, I tried it with many of my 

 patients, and with remarkable fuccefs in 

 mod cafes that were not of long ftand- 

 iijg ; but, where the difeafe had acquired 



any 



* Read 1764. 



