in preventing and curing Gangrene. 261 



Hot Climates. The practice there was, then, particu- 

 larly in dysenteries, to throw up emollient clysters ; 

 and, if there was much griping, pain, &c, a blister was 

 applied to the abdomen, to prevent the mortification of 

 the intestines, and that high degree of inflammation 

 that precedes it. These observations, as well as I 

 recollect, for I have not the books by me, may be 

 found in the London or Edinburgh Medical Journal. 



'ts* 



If then it be true, that a blister will stop the progress 

 of mortification, which the East-Indians and physicians 

 on the Malabar-coast supposed, and is now asserted by 

 Dr. Physick, to which I can, from experience, bear tes- 

 timony, would it not be worthy the trial in cases of 

 high degrees of inflammation, where sphacelus was sus- 

 pected, to prevent the access of that deplorable disease ? 



I am, Sir, with high consideration and respect, 

 Your sincere friend, 



John Floyd. 



VII. Memorandums of the Practice of an American 

 Empiric, as communicated to the Editor, by Dr. 

 Reuben Mussy, of Massachusetts. 



February 2lst, 1809. 



LAST summer, a man, who called himself Dr. 



####*##, passed through New-Hampshire and Massa- 

 chusetts. His object, in commencing travelling practi- 

 tioner, was, as he said, to revolutionize the practice of 

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