68 History of a Case of Rheumatism. 



saturated solution of arsenic, sulphuric acid, cinchona, 

 gentian, 8cc. To the skin were applied sulphate of zinc, 

 acetate of lead, unguent, vel. linament. calcis, made by- 

 uniting aqua calcis to ol. lini ; sulphur-ointment, &c. 



These and various others were used, with very little 

 benefit ; or, perhaps, I should say, with none at all. If 

 any application was of service, it was burdock-leaves 

 wilted and applied to the ulcers, when they were drying; 

 but the relief was only temporary. I prescribed the 

 unguentum calcis, with sanguine hopes, as I had seen 

 it used, with undoubted advantage, in scrophulous ul- 

 cers, and in burns. In the last, it exceeds every thing 

 I ever saw used. It would have afforded me more sa- 

 tisfaction, if the termination had been in health : but, 

 at all events, the case is a curious one. 

 I am. Sec, &c., 



Amos Gregg, Jun. 

 Bristol, August lOthy 1806. 



P. S. My preceptor. Dr. Gregg, who attended the 

 patient under the rheumatism, observed to me, that the 

 issues, which were put in, and had discharged profusely, 

 ceased to afford matter on the appetu-ance of the pustu- 

 lar eruption ; nor could they afterwards be made to rui>. 



