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couraged by an enema of warm wine whey, with an 
addition of volatile alkaline fpirit, or Eau de Luce, 
which laft has long been deemed a noted fpecific 
in France. The part affected, and alfo the neck and 
fpine, ought to be well embrocated twice a day 
with tepid oil; which, by foothing the nerves, 
may act as a powerful anodyne and antifpafmodic. 
Could an entire bath of oil be had, it would be 
perhaps greatly preferable to a common bath of 
warm water. i 
A patient, in confequence of the poifon of arfenic, 
had long fuffered fevere pains and convulfive fpafms 
over the whole furface of his body, which refifted 
various internal and external remedies, till he was 
ordered by M. BoureitueE to be placed for the 
fpace of an hour, at proper intervals, in a bath of 
warm oil, by which he was foon completely cured. 
If mufick has charms to harmonize the nerves and 
footh the feelings of the melancholy or outrageous 
maniac, as mentioned on the higheft authority, and 
confirmed by the ableft phyficians of antiquity ; can 
any caufe be afligned, why, ina mufical age like the 
prefent, its powerful influence fhould not be tried 
againft this dreadful malady? Though its effeéts on 
the difeafe occafioned by the tarantula may have been 
greatly exaggerated, yet, if what has been confidently 
afferted of its efficacy again{t the envenomed bite of 
the moft dangerous ferpents be true, the analogy 
would afford at leaft a prefumptive argument in its 
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