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ON Till. 



EXTERNAL USE OF COLD WATER IN THE 

 SMALL-POX. 



[This Paper, accompanied by the foregoing, was read before the 

 Medical Society in 1779, 1783, and 1784; but, as appears 

 from the following Letter to Dr Duncan, was never published 

 till the year 1807, when it appeared in the Medical and Surgi- 

 cal Journal, vol. iv. p. 123.^] 



Letter to A. Duxcax jun. M. D. 

 Sin, 



Tins paper, together with that on the external use of cold 

 water in malignant fever, was written in 1769-1770, and 

 sent to Dr John Fothergill, for the Medical Society of 

 London, in the beginning of the year 1779- It was read 

 several times ; at first ordered to be printed, afterwards post- 

 poned, and laid amongst their archives. 



It is probable that they thought this practice so rash and 

 daring, that they would not give their sanction to it. 



The Society was soon afterwards dissolved by the death 

 of Dr Fothergill, Dr Hunter, and Dr Solander ; and 

 I, with some difficulty, recovered my papers from Dr Thom- 

 son, secretary to the Society. 



Dr Simmons published my paper on fever in 1786, but 

 this paper on the small-pox never saw the light. 



I sent it, with others, to Dr Currie, at Liverpool ; it is 

 the same he alludes to in the second volume of his Medical 

 Reports. 



