Charles White, Esq. 4} 
came contagious; and, when thus propa- 
gated, beth men and women fell victims to 
it. The change of treatment not only checked 
the progress of the infection, but happily 
promoted the cure of the malady, where it 
had taken place; thus proving that the fever, 
or at least its attendant eruption, had been 
the creature of hot unventilated rooms, foul 
air, profuse sweating, and over stimulating 
medicines. 
In the year 1772, Mr. White presented to 
the Royal Society of London “an account of 
the topical application of the spunge in the 
stoppage of hemorrhages.”’ 
The use of spunge, as Mr. White acknow- 
ledges, was not unknown to the ancients; but 
its application had been confined to the stop- 
ping of partial hemorrhages from the smaller 
vessels. The difficulty, sometimes, of tying 
the vessels, when they were numerous; the 
want of permanency in the ligature, which 
occasionally occurred, especially when the 
parts were very soft and tender; and the pain 
during, and subsequent to, the operation, in- 
duced Mr. White to try the application of 
spunge in the greater operations, especially 
where the arteries were large and numerous. 
The experiment succeeded to his expecta- 
tions. In a subsequent publication he says, 
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