-l-aa Objcr-v-atlons on Spiders^ 



.tiuae to time, at fliort intervals. Two or three months, and 

 even a longer period, will be fometimes required for the at- 

 tainment of the defired end. 



I fliall not difguife, that, in cafes of long (landing, where 

 the mufclcs of the limbs are waited and become rigid, and 

 the joints ftiff and mipliant, mercury, like all other means, 

 will often be found ineffectual. A great obftacle to the cure, 

 too, frequently arifes from the poverty and wretchednefs of 

 the objcfts : ill fed, and without fufficient ihclter againft the 

 inclemencies of feafon, the conftitution is unable to fuftain 

 the debilitating aftion of the remedy. The effefts of cold, 

 as I have juft hinted, influence materially the cure. In the 

 winter feafon, the ufe of the limbs is much more flowly re- 

 covered than in warm weather. This leads one to expeft 

 advantage from the warm bath in fucli cafes ; and, in faft, 

 this is one of the moft powerful remedies we poflefs, and is 

 calculated greatly to aid the good efTcfts of mercury. The 

 Bath waters are very fuccefsfully employed for the purpofe, 

 and the liofjiital there much reforted to by patients of this 

 deicripdon. 



If the advantages of the plan I have here recommended 

 be more widely diftufed, through the medium of your ufeful 

 Mifcellany, I fliall be highly gratified. 



I am happy to find my obfcrvations on this fubje6l lately 

 confirmed by a refpeftable foreign writer. M. Warburg, of 

 Berlin, in a Tra£t on Palfy, ftrongly recommends the ufe of 

 calomel and mercurial frivSlions in that fpecies of the difeafe 

 which is produced by lead*. 



W . Ohfervations on Spiders, and their fuppofed Poifon. 

 Bj' M. Amoreux jV^w. M.D. 



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T is well known that chickens, nightingales, and other 

 birds eat fpideri without fullaining any injury : fpiders have 

 alfo been prefcribed as a reniedy chiefly in the tympanis. 

 All thefe inllances, however, do not difprove the obferva- 



* De Parahfi, Auiiore Jacobo W'arburg, Berol'menfi, 



tions 



