3o8 STAGGERS, &c. 



Take quickfilver four ounces ; 

 Hog's lard half a pound j 



Balfam of fulphur (or turpentine) half an ounce* 

 Rub the quickfilver well in a mortar, with the bal-' 

 fam of fulphur or turpentine, till they are fo well 

 incorporated that the globules difappear, then add 

 the lard (juft warm and liquified) by fmall quan- 

 tities, that may be fufficiently fmooth, and let 

 it be kept clofe covered for ufe. 



STAGGERS and CONVULSIONS. 



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A MULTIPLICITY of long ftanding diftinc- 

 tions, conftituting a variety of different difeafes 

 in former practice, have, by nice attention, in 

 modern improvement, been nearly reduced to- 

 the tv/o heads under w^hich we now write ; 

 that is, fuch diforders as principally affed: the 

 head, having their feat in the brain or veffels 

 leading thereto. In this defcription are in- 

 cluded thofe that have been formerly diftin- 

 guifhed under feparate heads, as Apoplexy, 

 Convulfions, Epilepfy, Stag-Evil, Palfy, &c. 

 but as fuch inveftigations (founded as they mufi: 

 be moftly upon conjedure) will evidently 

 extend the thread of information to an indeter- 

 minate 



