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our little authors & Ray* according to your System. In my last I think 

 I mentioned to you something of a new method of treating the pox, 1 

 have used the method with extra succés & I do think it bids fair for 

 extirpating y*^ disease from the number of our miseries. I have found 

 that crude mercury joyns perfectly with rubarb by trituration & a little 

 water, this undoubtedly was belost* genuin pills. I have also tryed it 

 with other vegetable substances & amoung others with sarsaparilla in 

 powder mercur pars 1. pulv, partes tres which triturated with a little 

 water extinguishes the mercury admirably & this given in a moderate 

 dose his die soon roots out every symptom of that disease without sa- 

 livation or purgation, the patient in mild weather walking the street. 

 however I think it necessary to assist it where there are local complaints, 

 obstructions of the uretra with bugies chankres by warm water to every 

 ounce of w^ I order 7, to 10 dröps of a solution of one drachme of 

 corrosive sublimate in an ounce of Spir. vini rectific. & a little lint dipt 

 in this clainses them in 3 or 4 days & soon after hails them. the same 

 used as a lotion & injection after suspitious commerce often prevents 

 infection. & the least touch of aqua fortis in w^ mercury is disolved 

 ad satiwationem wastes or carries of warts & ficus's. 



The same method cures the yaws effectually, but no other mercu- 

 rial course does the same. 



During my absence last to America the plates of the civil & natu- 

 ral H^ of Jamaica were löst in the large fire of London at M' Kirwans 

 «fc there is not another copy to be had if there be not a few in the 

 hands of Hildiard of York. If I can get one I will send you my owne 

 in w^ I have made some emendations as to the imperfects and a few 

 additions, but the titlepage is löst by toping so often from one place to 

 another. 1 would request a set of yours, those I have had are löst in 

 America & some left with young mr van Rohen in S"^* Groix. So that 

 I want almost all especially as you mention to me in your last that you 

 gave another edition of the species & genera mine are the old edition. «fc if 

 you could ad the museum fredericanum I would be infinitely oblidged 

 to you. there are frequent opportunities from Stockholm hilher in the 

 summer Se any commands for me, you may put inlo the hands of Jlf 

 Patrick at Robert Finleys Esqr in Stockholm, whose mother lives in 

 business in this city; or otherways direct it for me, to the care of An- 

 thony Dermot Esqr merch* Dublin, for fear I should be in the country, 

 when you write. The plants of Europé at present are stränge to me I 

 am oblidged to examin the flowers of every one before I know the 

 most common. I do not know if our arbutus be the unedo. the flower 



