ON THE USE OF VEGETABLE ACIDS, &C. 327 



From what has been said, it is evident that the medicine 

 is possessed of considerable antiseptic powers, and its virtue 

 consists in correcting the peccant matter in the stomach .and 

 intestinal canal. 



All the diseases in which I have given it had a putrid ten- 

 dency. I shall be happy to hear of its success in your west- 

 ern hemisphere. 



I am, with esteem, Sir, 



Your most humble servant, 



William Wright. 



Hie foregoing is an exact reprint of the original paper, as it appeared 

 in the second volume of the Philosophical Transactions of Phila- 

 delphia. From the distance of Dr Wright's residence, at the 

 period of its publication, and from the verbal inaccuracies with 

 which it is chargeable, he had probably no opportunity of revising 

 it as it passed through the press : but, as it has repeatedly appeared 

 in print, the Editor is restrained, by the rule he has adapted, of 

 leaving the papers which had been published in the author's life- 

 time; entirely untouched- 



