24 On the Prevention and Cure, &fc. 



It induces us to wish (says the author of the Bulletin 

 of the Sciences) that these experiments may be repeated 

 by the cultivators, that a practice may be introduced, 

 which not only would have a great influence upon this 

 important branch of our territorial riches, but would be 

 the means of arresting some dangerous fevers, to which 

 those men are frequently victims, who are occupied in 

 rearing Silk-Worms. 



The author of this article can add, in confirmation of 

 this last account, that he knows, that three considerable 

 establishments of this kind, which were many years in 

 good order, have been abandoned in consequence of the 

 diseases, which those persons were found attacked with, 

 who were engaged in rearing Silk-Worms; and, instead 

 of planting Mulberry-trees, the Culture of other articles 

 was substituted. 



IV. On the Use of the Veronica Peregrina, in Scrophu- 

 lous Cases. In a letter to the EDiTOR,yro;n James 

 Glen, M. Z)., of ' Holmesburgh, Pennsylvania. 



Dear Sir, 



AGREEABLE to promise, I will now give you 

 the statement of the good effects of the Veronica Pere- 

 grina, in Scrophula, as obtained from a respectable old 

 lady near this village. Some years ago, her son, about 

 seven years old, was attacked with a swelling in the 

 neck, attended with a fever. It was in the spring of the 

 year. The tumour increased for some time; the inflam- 

 mation afterwards gradually abated, and the tumour les- 



