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tended, I mutt acknowledge I never faw a worfe cafe, old 
Welt-India fores excepted. 
I have'the honour to be, Sir, 
Your obedient fervant, 
j | J. C. CARPUE. 
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Having referred Mr. M‘Kennon to Mr. Spencer, a furgeon 
in Charlotte-ftreet, Fitzroy-fquare, who adminifters the pneu-~ 
piatic remedies, I received the following letter : 
A Letter to Dr. Thornton from Mr. Spencer. 
SIR, 
I here enclofe the treatment and the progreffive cure of 
the ulcer which occupied the external ancle of the right 
leg of Mr. M‘Kennon, For fix weeks, by your direction, 
he daily took a gallon of oxygen air, mixed with four times 
that quantity of atmofpheric air. The ulcer difcharged pro- 
_perly, but feemed to heal very flowly : in confequence-I gave 
him a double dofe, and after a fortnight it produced very 
feverith fymptoms, when he took by your order fome pur- 
gatives, and then he refumed his ufual dofe of fuperoxyge- 
gated air daily, until the ulcer, diminifhing by degrees, was 
at laft completely healed, there being no difcharge, the whole 
cicatrifing, and the new-formed furface looking: extremely 
healthy. During this period no particular application or 
drefings were made ufe of by me, nor any medicine directed 
“by you, but what before he faid he had taken gallons of ; fo 
that I attribute his extraordinary cure entirely to the efhcacy 
of the oxygen air. Happy in being able to give my tefiimony 
to fo remarkable a cafe, I have the honour to be, dear Sir, 
With the profoundett refpect, 
Your obedient humble fervant, 
T. SPENCER. 
REMARKS BY DR. THORNTON. 
_ As Mr. M‘Kennon took bark, fome of the Fagulty may 
not be willing to give to the oxygen air the ment in this 
_ eure; I will therefore endeavour to fiate fhortly my reafons 
_. for attributing every thing to this new remedy. / 
aS i. The 
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