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that occurred to him in the courfe of his practice, one, of 
which is as follows: Being called to attend a woman, a 
the point of death, who was quite worn out by a confump-, 
tive diforder, with which fhe had been afflicted for three 
years, in compliance with the earnett defire of her hufband, 
who requefted him to give her fome medicine, he compofed 
one of a’portion of fyrup diluted with water in which :a few 
fticks of phofphorus had been kept. Next day the wo- 
man found herfelf much better., She was revived for a few 
days; and did not die til] about a fortnight after. 
2. He himfelf, as he acknowledges, was fo imprudent as 
to take two or three grains of folid phofphorus. combined 
only with treacle, and experienced the moit dreadful fymp- 
toms. At firft he felt a burning heat in the whole region 
of the flomach. That organ feemed to be filled with gas 
which efcaped by the mouth. Being dreadfully tormented, 
he tried to vomit, but in vain, and found relief only by 
drinking'cold water from time to time. His uneafy fenfa- 
tions were at length allayed; but next morning he feemed 
to be endowed with an aftonifhing mufcular force, and to be 
urged with an almoft irrefiftible impulfe to try its energy. 
The effect of this medicine at length ceafed, adds the au- 
thor, 2 la _fuiie d’un priapif/me violent. . 
3. In many cafes the author employed, and ftill employs, 
phofphorus internally, with great benefit, to reftore and re- 
vive young perfons exhaufted by excefles. He divides the 
phofphorus into very {mall particles, by fhaking it im a glafs 
filled with boiling water. He continues to thake the botile, 
plunging it into cold water, and thus obtains a kind of pre- 
cipitate of phofphorus, exceedingly fine, which he bruifes 
flowly with a little oil and fugar, or afterwards employs as 
liquid eleétuary, by diluting the whole in the yolk of an egg. 
By means of this medicine he has effected aftonithing cures, 
and reftored the firength of his patients im a very fhort 
time, 
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