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Remarks ok Dr G a r d i n e R 's Paper on the 

 life ofCorroffve Sublimate t as an Anthel' 

 fnintiCf ^/ Z)r Clerk. 



C INCE Dr Gardiner's paper was deli- 

 ^•^ vered to me, I have had only two 

 cafes of worms that I could try his me- 

 dicine in. One of them was that of a 

 boy of about thirteen years of age, a pa- 

 tient in the royal infirmary, and who 

 was fubjedl to the common round worm. 

 He was cured, by the ufe of the flrong fo^ 

 lution of corrolive fublimate made up in- 

 to pills with bread, in a week or two. 



The other cafe was that of a young 

 gentleman, aged fixteen, who had been 

 afflided with the vermes cucurbitini for 

 three years and a half, For the firft yeai? 

 and a halt of that time, befides the paf- 

 Cng ot worms, he had no other com- 

 plaints but a grinding of his teeth, and 



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