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applied heated bricks, wrapped up in wet cloths, to the 

 feet and sides of the patient. The sweating excited in 

 this way was continued twelve hours. If, in the 

 course of this time, the disease was not all driven out, 

 the same course was pursued, only the medicines were 

 given in smaller doses. Many patients thus treated 

 immediately on the attack of the first symptoms of fe- 

 ver, recovered. But this febrifuge method was not 

 perfectly adapted to phthisis pulmonalis. Two con- 

 sumptive patients I knew of died in his hands, before 

 the sweating process was half completed. In no in- 

 stance did he do any thing like curing phthisis, though 

 in every case he promised long life. 



By this time, I need not state that he was destitute 

 not only of any regular acquaintance with his profession, 

 but even of the rudiments of an English education, and 

 that his stay in every place was short. 



VIII. Cases and Observations of the good Effects of the 

 Geranium Maculatum of IAnnaus, in Hemorrhages. 

 In a Letter from Dr. Job Wilson, to Samuel 

 Benezet, M. D., of Philadelphia. Communicated 

 to the Editor by Dr. Benezet. 



Sir, 



HAVING been informed, through the medium 

 of my brother, that it would be highly gratifying to 

 you, to be furnished with a detail of those cases in 

 which I have observed the application of the Geranium 

 maculatum to be attended with the most happy cf- 



