PHYSICAL AND LITERARY 5SS 



that there was not time to raife a fa- 

 livation. None of the cafes which were 

 .under this gentleman's care in the Weft 

 Indies were the confequences of wounds 

 or capital operations; nor has he had any 

 opportunity of trying it fince in cafes of 

 the locked jaw, which fometiraes follow 

 capital operations, owing to his having 

 given over pradice ; but he thinks, that, 

 from the fimilarity of the complaint 

 there is no doubt but that the mercurial 

 fridions would be equally efficacious in 

 fuch cafes, as when the diforder comes 

 from catching cold, or other fuch caufes. 

 He thinks, that the bell method of 

 railing a faiivation in thefe di/orders is 

 to put the patient into a room made as 

 hot, by means of a fire, and bdno- fur- 

 rounded with blankets, as the patient can 

 bear ; and to rub in a mercurial ointment, 

 made with equal parts of quickillver and 

 hogs lard, as freely and as frequently as 

 can be done with fafety. Tha't the foon- 

 erthc cure~ is begun after the firft ap- 

 pearance of the locked jaw, the better. 

 And that, in cafes far advanced, the mer- 

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