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•symptoms, I have prescribed pulvis Jacob), or pulvis antimo- 



nialis, two grains, and one grain of calomel, every three hours, 

 till a perspiration came on ; which I kept up for several 

 hours. By this means the tit was warded off; the fever and 

 inflammation disappeared; and in a few days they followed 

 their occupations. 



" A gentleman in the West Indies had cephalalgia arthri- 

 tica to such a height, that I was apprehensive of frenzy or 

 hydrencephalus. I gave him five grains of calomel twice a- 

 day for two successive days, which produced a sudden saliva- 

 tion, and my patient was relieved of headach, and continued 

 free of it for two years. The theory of the day is, that both 

 mercury and camphor dispose nature to reabsorb the mor- 

 bid and inflammatory affections. 



" I have lately had a case of mania furiosa. It was the 

 lady of one of the professors. She is upwards of 50 years of 

 age, tall and well made. She had seemingly a good state of 

 health, and the catamenia about leaving her. 



" About the middle of December, she was suddenly seized 

 with frenzy. I accompanied Dr Monro to her residence in 

 the country. We found her so high and ungovernable as to 

 induce the necessity of coercion. She had fever and flushing, 

 with constipation, talking loudly and incessantly. Topical 

 bleedings were adopted, and a blister was applied to the head 

 Neither vomiting nor perspiration could be brought on by 

 large doses of emetic tartar, and costiveness was with difficulty 

 removed by drastic purgatives, and stimulating injections. 

 Dr Monro recommended small doses of tartar emetic, three 

 times a-day, which were given for three weeks without effect, A t 

 last, I determined on giving her camphor, viz. camphoric 3i, 

 sp. vim" 3i, magnesia 5i, aquae comm. ^xii, sacch. alb. y M. 

 A common wine glassful three times a-day. The first dose 

 was administered forcibly through a silver funnel, on the 

 5th of January. The second dose she took with good will , 



