134 MEMOIR OF DR WRIGHT. 



and on the same day she requested that a third might, be 

 ffiven to her. She was now calm, cool and collected. It was 

 continued twice a-day for a week ; since which she continues 

 well. This I think is the fourth case I have cured by cam- 

 phor ; at least I have been so fortunate as to have them re- 

 cover at the time it was administered. 



" Of diabetes I know a little ; and several cases, of no long 

 standing, I treated with success, by a method peculiar to my- 

 self. It was no other than the citric acid saturated with ma- 

 rine salt. The diabetic cases were recent, attending remittent 

 fever, or its consequences, or took place in children with re- 

 mitting fever, and great intestinal irritation, occasioning loose- 

 ness and lienteria. Such bowel complaints as cholera, diar- 

 rhoea, lienteria, and dysentery, yield to this simple remedy ; 

 and with it I have cured a great number of all ages and con- 

 ditions. Two physicians in America, Drs Perkins and 

 B. Lynde Oliver, have published an 8vo volume on Dysen- 

 tery, &c. cured by ' Dr Wright's medicine, 1 and say it will 

 supersede the use of all others in the cure of fluxes. I am 

 not quite so sanguine : I often find that obstinate dysentery 

 will only yield to calomel. - " 



Dr Wright, in the regular course of rotation, should 

 have assumed the Presidency of the Royal College of 

 Physicians in the year 1800, as successor to his friend 

 Dr Gregory ; but, in consequence of the somewhat 

 animated discussion which was at this time in progress 

 between the Physicians and Surgeons of Edinburgh, 

 Dr Gregory and Mr Bell, being the champions of 

 the two parties, Dr Wright thought it best to post- 

 pone his pretensions, in favour of Dr Gregory, who 

 had occupied the chair for the two previous years. On 

 the 3d of December 1800 he writes to his brother s 



