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rican doctor details the good effects of vegetable acid and sea- 

 sakj in various cases, and styles it < l)r Wright's Medicine. 1 



In fluxes he thinks it will supersede the use of every other 

 remedy. 



" We have had the catarrhal fever very prevalent in this 

 city ; and it has proved fatal to some old people worn down 

 by infirmities: I have heard of others who narrowly escaped. 

 The hazard they incurred was probably owing to the unsea- 

 sonable use of means too active in their operation. On the 

 Continent many have died by bleeding and brisk evacuants. 

 I recommend cordial and volatile medicines, gentle laxatives, 

 and diaphoretics, with wine and a generous regimen to support 

 the strength of the patient. 



" Dr IIunteh, the Professor of Divinity, lies dangerously 

 ill. His disorder is said to be an internal inflammation. The 

 old antiphlogistic mode of treatment continues here ; of which 

 you know that I do not approve. My modus medendi was, 

 by the use of mercurials, internally by the stomach, and ex- 

 ternally by friction, increasing or diminishing the application 

 progressively, as the violence of the symptoms prevailed or 

 abated. 



" A number of children have lately died in hooping cough. 

 In several instances it caused an effusion on the brain, and 

 consequently hydrocephalus. Some practitioners here pre- 

 tend to have cured hydrocephalus, by means of mercury, af- 

 ter double vision, and even blindness, had taken place ; but 

 for this they have no credit. I have seen many, but all 

 proved fatal, notwithstanding the use of mercury, digitalis, 

 and other remedies. 11 



Dr Wright devoted the last slimmer of the cen- 

 tury to a tour in the north of Scotland, spending a 

 considerable part of his time among his friends in the 

 counties of Perth and Aberdeen. From the neigh- 



