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ved fatal, and was not to be cured by 

 medicine, notwithftanding what foms 

 praditioners had alledged. However, 

 having received an unexpe(5ted hint con- 

 cerning the good effeds of the mercurial 

 ointment in fuch cafes, he refolved to 

 try it; and ordered the firit patient that 

 offered, to be put into a warm room, 

 and to be rubbed two or three times a- 

 day with the ointment, till luch time as 

 a falivation was raifed, when he, with 

 pleafure, obferved, that as Toon as the 

 mercury began to affed the mouth, the 

 convulfions of the mufcles of the jaws, 

 as well as all the other fpafms and con- 

 vulfions, ceafed, and the patient was freed 

 of all his complaints. 



After this, he treated every cafe of 

 this kind which came under his care in 

 the fame manner, and cured twelve, 

 which were all who applied to him for 

 advice fo early in the diforder, that there 

 was time to bring the mercury to the 

 mouth before the fatal period was ex- 

 pedled. A few died in whom the difeafe 

 was fo far advanced before he faw them, 



that 



