^68 STAGGERS, Lc. 



Take quickfilver four ounces •, 



Hog's lard half a pound ; 



Balfam of fulphur (or turpentine) half an ounce. 



Rub the quickfilver well in a mortar, with the 

 balfam of fulphur or turpentine, till they are 

 fo well incorporated that the globules dilap- 

 pear, then add the lard (juft warm and lique- 

 fied) by fmall quantities, that it may be fuf- 

 ficiently fmooth, and let it be kept clofe 

 covered for ufe. 



STAGGERS and CONVULSIONS. 



A MULTIPLICITY of long {landing diftinc- 

 tions, conflituting a variety of different difeafes 

 in former praftice, have, by nice attention, in 

 modern improvement, been nearly reduced to 

 the two heads under which we now write; 

 that is, fuch diforders as principally affedl the 

 head, having their feat in the brain or veffels 

 leading thereto. In this defciiption are in* 

 eluded 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 muft 

 be moftly upon conjedlure) will evidently ex- 

 tend the thread of information to an indeter- 

 minate 



