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be profecuted ; but that the quantity of 

 the mufk and opium, efpecially of the 

 latter, (hould be gradually increafed as 

 far as could be done with fafety : And, 

 befides venaefeilion and a general warn;i 

 bath, we advifed that the fra(ftured leg 

 fliould be bled with leeches and care- 

 fully fomjinted. In cafe the fymp- 

 toms fliould not foon yield to thefe, we 

 farther propofed, that, even although no 

 colleclion of matter or carious piece of 

 bone could be difcovered, an incifion 

 ihould be made at the fradured place, 

 as the difcharge of blood from the pare 

 and fucceeding fuppuration might, we 

 thought, lefTen the fenfibility of the af- 

 fedled nerves. 



After nine days farther trial of the 

 above, without benefit, excepting only 

 that he would not fubmic to the incifion, 

 I ventured, in Dr Cullen's abfence from 

 town, to propofe mercury, as direded in 

 the lad article XXX. by my brother; 

 but advifed, that the opium fliould be 

 continued v/ith it. The effed of this 

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