440 ESSAYS and OBSERVATION!? 



Art. XV. 



The H'lftory of a Cure performed h'j large Dofes 

 of an alterative mercurial Medicine ^ com- 

 mwiicated to Dr Plummer; by Mr 

 George Denni^toun, Surgeon in 

 Falkirk, 



ABOUT the month of December 

 1737, a gentleman applied to me 

 for cure : He complained, that, for fome 

 time pad, he had felt piicking pains in 

 feveral parts of his body, efpecially about 

 his fhoulders and ihin-bones, 'which were 

 now become intolerable. He had dry 

 fcurfy fcabs over the whole infide of the 

 thighs ; the glands of both groins were a 

 little tumified ; and hard crufly fcabs 

 were here and there fcattered upon the 

 fcrotum, hips, and about the podex. 

 Erom thefe, and other circumflances, I 



had 



