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XVI. Second Cammunlcationjrom Dr. Thornton, Phy/T- 

 iicm to the General Difpenfary, relative t r j different Trials 

 made with the Factitious Airs. 



SIR, Feb. 20. Dukc-ftrec!> Grofvenor Square, 



AM happy to inform you that I have been honoured 

 from the mod rcfpe6table quarters with feveral communica- 

 tions for your Magazine, relative to Pneumatic Medicine. 

 Permit me to mention, that the only inducement I have for 

 puhlifhing in your work, is the great efiimation I hold it in, 

 the good of my fellow creatures, and a wifli to fill up the 

 chafm from the laft publications by Dr. Bcddoes on the Fac- 

 titious Airs, until the efiablifhment of a Pneumatic Hofpitar, 

 the foundation of which is begun to be laid by that enlight- 

 ened and patriotic phyneian, when the fubject, he fays, wilt 

 fro again revived by him. I am, fir, 



To the Editor of the -» Your obedient fervant, 



T b'dofophkal Magazine. > B-obert John Thornton. 



A REMARKABLE CASE OF SCROPHULA CURED BY 

 VITAL AIR. 



Mifs Holmer, at 18, an amiable and accomplished young 

 lady, the daughter of a wholefale ironmonger in the Bo- 

 iwrgh*,, fo early as at the- age of feven had the glands of 

 the neck beginning to take on difeafe. Firft one gland un- 

 «fer the ear, then another, and by degrees all the glands 

 about the neck became enlarged, and went on gradually in- 

 rreafing. The fime difpofition alfo fhewed itfclf by an affec- 

 tion of the eyes, for which this lady was nine months lin- 

 ger the care of Mr. Ware. During the progrefs of glandu- 

 lar affection, fhe was under Meffrs. Kent,. Fearon, Bayley, 



•This lady had all the benefit of country air; her father having a lioufe 

 at Yauxhall, and keeping his carriage, the had every advantage thatfortunc 

 could jive her. EDIT. 



