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such as tabes mesenterica, tubercles of the lungs, 
rickets, and hydrocephalus; it is not, therefore, 
to be presumed, that by any local application, the 
scrofulous tendency of the animal economy can 
be eradicated. 
Many facts which I already possess, as well as 
rigorous analogy, might induce me to recom- 
mend the external application of lunar caustic in 
some other obstinate diseases; but I am unwilling 
to promulgate any opinion, of the accuracy of 
which my own mind is not entirely satisfied ; but 
I venture to assert, that it presents the physiolo- 
gical practitioner with curative means, for which 
the res medica offers no substitute. I should 
even here have enlarged more on its medical 
properties, were it not that my friend Dr. Sillar 
is now occupied on this subject, and will perhaps 
lay his observations before the public. 
FINIS, 
— 
James Smith, Printer, Liverpool. 
