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V. O., who had a number of glandular swellings, 

 which suppurated, and discharged pus of a healthy ap- 

 pearance. After some time, and when he appeared to 

 be recovering, abscesses formed in other parts of his 

 body. I opened, at different times, about thirty of 

 them : they all discharged pus of a proper colour and 

 consistence ; he was neglected a few days ; and a large 

 abscess formed upon one ham, which discharged so 

 much, that he began to fail; and, just before death, mat- 

 ter issued from his ears. He died without a struggle, 

 and with the same tranquillity that a person goes to rest. 



XIX. On the Use of the Polygala Senega, or Seneka- 

 Snake-Root, in the Treatment of the Malignant YeU 

 low- Fever. Communicated to the Editor, by 

 James Ha ynes worth, M. D., of South- Carolina. 



THE Rev. Richard Furman, D. D., well 

 known among the pious, whose philanthropy often led 

 him to attempt something for the relief of those whom 

 poverty prevented from sending for a physician, and 

 whom, in his professional capacity, as minister of the 

 gospel, he was called to visit, introduced another mode 

 of treatment. The following is his own account of it:^ 



" A mode of treatment, which has been generally, if 

 not universally, successful for the cure of Yellow-Fe- 

 ver : 



" If the patient is of a plethoric habit, and the symp- 

 toms run high, bleed moderately in the beginning. 



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