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butie, or antivenereal, and with the ad- 

 ditional property of tiidr being a power- 

 ful anthelmintic. I have of late, not- 

 withltanding this, changed my method 

 jof making the fblution, with equal fuc- 

 /cefs as to its virtues, for that ufed in 

 the Royal Infirmary, with this difFerence^ 

 that, although it is in my power to diC- 

 folve above a drachm of corrofive fubli- 

 inate in half an ounce of the faturate 

 fblution of cTude/al ammoniac. ; yet I on- 

 Jy diffolve half a drachm of the fubli- 

 Xnate in that quantity of the folution, 

 which, when made into'a parte in a glafs- 

 mortar, as above, and divided into 240 

 pills, reduces them to lef^ than half the 

 fize of what they were in my firll pre- 

 fcription ; and they appear to have the 

 advantage of the liquid folution in the 

 following particulars : That, when a lit- 

 tle dried, by their being kept a day or 

 two, they occafioned no bad tafte ; they 

 do not adl fo immediately on the fto- 

 fxiach as in the Hquid formj at the fame 

 jime, they are of eafy folution j and the 



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