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© Toform a jut eftimate of the'cures attributed to 
mercury, we mutt take’ into the account the other 
means employed at the fame time. “Thus M. Bau- 
pot, M. Bourzrute, and other French praétitioners 
of eminence, unwilling to truft to the:above mercu- 
rial. procefs:alone, exprefsly order the wound to be 
firft. carefully anointed! with warm olive oil. 
«M.Le Rovx and his followers, who’ rejected 
mercury, and attributed their fuccefs to the anti- 
monial cauftic alone, employed neverthelefs an 
ointment, confifting chiefly of frefh butter, to drefs 
the wound.*. 
In this and other obftinate difeafes of the convul- 
five kind, the ancients’ anointed’ the body with warm 
oil; a practice too much negleéted by modern 
practitioners, 
Conformable to this idea appears to be Dr. Loor’s: 
oleaginous medicine, which now properly comes’ - 
under confideration. The yolk of egg, though pro- 
bably deftimute of any fpecific power, yet (as an’ 
animal mucilage well adapted to render the oil mif- 
cible with the animal fluids, and alfo to reconcile it 
to the ftomach) feems a proper addition; nor need 
there be much exaétnefs from an apprehenfion of 
an over-dofe. A domeftic remedy fo fimple, fo in-' 
nocent, and fo well recommended, is certainly intitled 
to a full and candid trial in this country. 
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* Mem. de l’Acad. vol. vi. 
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