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cafe in the bowels, if fuch exlfted, and a blifter to the fonta- 

 nelle to relieve any fulnefs which might opprefs the brain. 

 By the ufe of thefe remedies, and of tepid bathing, the infant 

 recovered., As blifters and tepid bathing fo often fail in curing 

 this difeafe, I was inclined to attribute much of our fuccefs to 

 the calomel, and therefore I introduced the ufe of it in a fnnilar 

 manner into the Lying-in Hofpital ; and although I cannot fay 

 it adually cured one, yet it certainly afforded more obvious 

 relief than any remedy hitherto tried. Several infants, whom 

 the moft experienced nurfe-tenders apprehended to be ferioufly 

 threatened, efcaped the difeafe ; and it evidently mitigated the 

 feverity of fymptoms in fome defperate cafes. "Whether, in a 

 pure atmofphere, and fituations otherwife more favourable for 

 the exhibition of powerful remedies, it may be found to pro- 

 duce better effeds, I propofe as a quere, to be determined by 

 future obfervation ? In the courfe of laft month I was fo fortu- 

 nate in private pradlice as to remove convulfions in an infant 

 of three weeks old, by calomel and bliftering, as above defcribed, 

 without the ufe of any other remedy*. 



Cutajieous Eruptions, 



It is a Angular fadl that infants on the breaft are very fubjedl 

 to cutaneous eruptions of the herpetic kind, which in adults 



are 



* Since this paper was firft read to the Academy, which is near two years ago, 

 I think I have been ftill more fuccefsfu! in the treatment of the foregoing omplaints, 

 by adding to each dofe of calomel a grain or two of fcammony or jalap, fo as to 

 render it more certainly and brilkly purgative. June 1795. 



