iOZ Putrid Fever cured bji V^^t'al.^ir'. 



letter from Mr. Corpe, an eminent Itirgeori and apothecary 

 upwards of thirty years : — 



To Dr. Thornton. 



Barnct, June ii, 1799. 

 DEAR SIR, 



My daughter was taken, the 27th of February 1798, with 

 chills, followed by fliiverings, confiderable lofs of ftrength, 

 and dcpreffion of fpirits. Slie continued fufferiiig much from- 

 chills for about four or five hours, after which flic com- 

 plained of heat and flufliing in her flice, not attended with 

 much thirft, and was a little delirious that night. The 

 next day the fymptoms increafed, and the debility was fo 

 great that I was obliged, after the firft paflages had been 

 thoroughly cleanfed, to have rccourfc to wine and bottled 

 porter, together with cordial antifcptic medicines ; which 

 plan was purfued, under your direction, during the progrefs 

 of the difcafe; towards the clofe of which, the poor child 

 ^vas fo fliockingly debilitated, that we expelled every minute 

 would be her lafl, v^'hich induced you to direil vital air*, 

 by which, and the conflant ufe of llrong vinegar, thoroughly 

 fprayed with a hearth-brufh ail over the room and curtains 

 of the bed, revived her aflonifliingly : but the manner in 

 ■wliich flie conftantly revived, after inhaling the vital air, 

 jnuft be chiefly attributed to it, as the vinegar had been ufed 

 in the way before mentioned almoft from the very beginning 

 of the difeafe, and was, I believe, not only of great ufe to 

 the patic;it, but prevented the fever fpreading in my family. 

 No poor human being, I believe, ever had a narrower efcape 

 from death; and I (liall always feel niyfelf under the highell 

 obligations pofliblc to \ou for your attention and extraordi- 

 nary Ikill in reiloring my dear child, with God's affillancc^ 

 (0, Dear Sir, 



Your much obliged and faithful Servant, 



JOHN CORPE. 



* Sixteen cji-arts of vital air, mixed with the fame quantity of atmo- 

 fphcric air, were aJininificrcd in the evcnlnjr. 



P.S.I 



