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292 Eleventh Communication from Dr. Thornton. 
St. George’s Hofpital, which he left as incurable, and fince , 
under my care foy feveral months ; and fo bad is.his-cafe, 
that I am fare if you can cure him you can cure the devil.” 
Being no furgeon, I could have no with, to accept of fuch 
acafe but for the caufe of humanity and the fake of feience ¢ 
and I feel extreme delight in faying, that poor Roderick is 
now perfectly cured, the ulcer is healed, his afthma. gone, 
and, in order that the philofophic world may fee fuller par- 
ticulars refpecting this extraordinary cure, I am happy to 
be able to add the following teftimonies : 
A Letter to Dr. Thornton, from Mr. Carpue, Surgeon at the 
York-Hofpital. 
DEAR SIR, 
T have feen Mr. M‘Kennon, and have examined his le¢, 
and think the cure you have wrought on it is indeed very , 
aftonifhing. When he firft came. under my care, he laboured 
under an immente ulceration, extending from the externa! 
ancle of the right le, which reached as high as the jun&tion 
of the *erid6ts of the gattrocnemii and folzeus mufeles. At 
this period the tendons of the peroneal mufcles had fluffed, 
and in confequence I applied charcoal, which produced very 
confiderable good ; but upon mentioning this to a friend, 
who knew the cafe well*, he faid, ‘It was immaterial 
what remedy T ufed, for it was a café in which he was 
certain nothing would prove effectual.””. After this I applied 
the diluted nitrous acid, and feemingly with advantage; bat 
being obliged to go mio the country, I left him under the 
care of another furgeon; and when I faw him, after an 
abfence of fix weeks, 1 found the fore ina very unfavour- 
able condition; and for fourmonths I ufed different applica- 
tions, but to no purpofe, and I conceived the cafe now to 
be perfectly incurable, and as fuch mentioned it to you 
when I had the pleafure of meeting you at Mr. Heavifide’s : 
and I then propofed him to you for the trial of the oxvgen 
air, as his cafe, if fuceefsful, would prove moft decidedly 
its efficacy; for, in the multitude of fore legs I have at- 
** We belicve this to be Dr. Baitcy, phyfician to St. George's Hofpital. 
tended, 
