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any confiderable degree of virulence, it 

 frequently proved inferior, in its falurary 

 efFeds, to fome other of the more fimple 

 peparations of mercury in common ufe : 

 Befides, there often occurred inllances, 

 where, on account of a delicacy of the 

 ftomach and bowels, it could not be con: 

 tinned a fufficient time. Notv^^ithftand- 

 ing, as it is not fo apt to run off by the 

 lalival glands, when given in moderate 

 dofes, as mofl of the other prepara- 

 tions of mercury are, and is of courfe 

 better fuited to be given in flight cafes, 

 and when the patient cannot conveni- 

 ently be confined, it ought to be conilder- 

 ed as a valuable medicine. 



Some material objedlions with me tcv 

 this method of giving the corrofive fub- 

 limate were, its abominably brafTy tafte';. 

 and, by its immediate a(5lion on the fto- 

 mach from its liquid form, if given in 

 any quantity, it frequently occafioned 

 a confiderable naufea, pains in the flo* 

 mach, and vomiting ; and thefe patients, 

 in a little time, commonly come to have 



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