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complained of a burning sensation in that organ, they 

 administered calcined magnesia, in large and repeated 

 doses ; and, when the bowels were not free, they had 

 recourse to laxative injections. But the hot-bath, 

 followed by sinapisms and blisters, extensively ap- 

 plied, appeared to afford the most certain relief, when 

 no medicine could be retained. 



To relieve this disordered state of the stomach, 

 when other remedies failed, they had recourse to in- 

 jections of the most stimulating kind; and, among 

 others, to the Spt. Terebinth., which they adminis- 

 tered in doses of from half an ounce to two ounces, di- 

 luted with warm water, and repeated it at short inter- 

 vals, till it occasioned considerable tenesmus, after 

 which, the stomach generally became settled, and re- 

 tained any medicine or nourishment that was thought 

 proper. 



The practice of the gentlemen, who had charge of 

 the hospital, was certainly conducted with discrimin- 

 ating judgment ; for, although a considerable portion 

 of the patients were admitted in the last stage of the 

 disease, and, consequently, in a hopeless condition, 

 more than one half recovered, including all that were 

 admitted*. 



I had an opportunity of seeing the stomachs of seve- 

 ral persons examined, but could discover no marks of 



• The cases admitted, from the 2rth of August to the 2.nh of 

 October, were 346; of these, 163 died- 



