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seen sometimes one dose is sufC' but I do not see y* what we have in 

 the shops here ans"^®. 



Your mest Obed* & oblidged 

 humble serv* 



Pattr Browne 



Utanskrift: 



lllustrisso Viro 

 D. D. Carolo Linneeo, Equiti Aurato etc. 



Upsaliis 

 Suecia 

 Siveden. 

 Linn. Soc, Vol. II; 207-208. 



^ Ett stycke af brefvet här bortrifvet. 



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D^ Sir 



Yesterday 1 rec^ your favour of the 15*^ aprill 1771, the other you 

 mention never carae to hand. I am sory the dissertations are not prin- 

 ted yet to send you' a copy of them, you raay be assured on one so 

 soon as they are. In the interim I shall give you what satisfaction I 

 can in the treatment of the venereal disease. — When there is only 

 some remains of the virus after a sah'vation, or other ineffectual course 

 the following pills given twice a week is oftentimes suff' viz. take of 

 best rubarb in powder ^i- of good & pure quicksilver ^s. put them 

 into a marble or glass morter & ad as much water gradually as will 

 bring the rubarb to the consistinces of pills rubing then very well with 

 a pestil. the mercury will be soon incorporated & extinguished very 

 perfectly very soon & then it may be given in pills or a bolus. The 

 quantity of mercury here may be varied as well as the quantity of Ru- 

 barb, & the dose made smaller or larger as you please. likeways, when 

 you chose to purge, some more actieve purgative may be interposed, 

 or joyned in the pills (after incorporating the mercury) this sir you see 

 is only an occasional Medecine & I do realy believe the real composition 

 of Bilosts pills, for it bas much better effects thus than when mixt 

 with any other compositions, but for the cure of the rooted Disorder 

 my method was as foUows. After useing a few warm baths for 3 or 

 -4 days perhaps a week, I ordered the following pills, w*^ cure with out 



