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are as necessary as the external or internal 

 administration of medicine ; experience hav- 

 ing afforded ample proof that a combination 

 may effect what is not in the power of indi- 

 viduals to perform. 



The strong mercurial ointment directed 

 for the repulsion of Glandular tumours under 

 this head, as also iu the Farcy (p. 144), may 

 be procured at any medical dispensary by 

 that name, or thus prepared : 



Takh quicksilver four ounces ; 



Hog's lard balf a pound ; 



Balsam of sul[)hur (or lurpentine) half an ounce. 



Rub the quicksilver well in a mortar, with the ba'l* 

 sum of sulphur or turpentine, till they are so 

 ivell incorporated that the globules disappear, 

 then add tlie lard (just warm and liquefied) by 

 small quantities that it may be sufficiently smooth, 

 Viud let it be kept close covered for use. 



STAGGERS AND CONVULSIONS. 



A MULTIPLICITY of long standinij distinc- 

 tions, constituting a variety of different dis- 

 eases in former practice, have, by nice atten- 

 tion, in modern improvement, been nearly 

 reduced to the two heads under which we 

 now write ; that is, such disorders as prin^ 



