Nciv Vullications. '2,6'^ 



in a loofe ftate, and readily detached, the acid may be diluted 

 with a portion of \vat>r, and adminillered as above men- 

 tioned, 



." Should any confiderable truce to the violent fymptoms 

 be happily obtained, the return of paroxvim might poflibly 

 be obviated by a liberal ufe of Peruvian bark with fteel, and 

 by repeated oxvgenation." 



From the variety of fails winch we have laid before our 

 readers, it will hardly efcape notice, that volatile alkali and 

 olive oil appear to i)e tlie moft powerful remedies in this 

 dreadful malady ; and that the fecurity of the patient would 

 be further inlured by the wound being well fucked, and alfo 

 cicatrii'ed, without any Jofs of time. A. T. 



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