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pleurisies, as in very many others that occur upon 

 their plantations ; and they are very often successful 

 (judging from their reports) in pleurisies. And such 

 is their confidence in Antimon. Tart., Serp. Virgin., 

 blisters, and the lancet, that they look for no other 

 remedies in pneumonic inflammation, and often em- 

 ploy but the two first. 



Pneumonia notha is a disease of such rare occur- 

 rence, that I can hardly judge of the general practice 

 here : I should believe it comformable to that which 

 generally obtains. 



In our fevers of summer and autumn, applications 

 of cold water and partial immersion are common and 

 efficacious prescriptions, and arc daily gaining credit. 

 In our worst cases, the lancet, cold water, and mer- 

 cury, urged to the affection of the salivary glands, 

 are found the most powerful means of overcoming 

 the disease ; and we have witnessed few unsuccessful 

 cases, where these remedies have been timely em- 

 ployed, and duly urged. The rapid progress of many 

 cases of fever, last fall, did not admit of charging the 

 system with mercury, before delirium, with death at 

 its heels, snatched the patient from our hands. But, 

 in these formidable cases of fever, we have rarely 

 trusted to one or two remedies, while wc had a 

 choice of more. Bleeding, purging, blistering, cold 

 water, and mercury have, however, composed the 

 catalogue of remedies, in which we have reposed the 

 greatest confidence. 



