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To the two firft, occaflonally, may be 

 added a third part of mercurial ointment; 

 but as fulpher is in general allowed to be 

 the fpecific in the itch, and being found 

 both more fafe and efficacious than mer- 

 cury, fo we apprehend it will fufficiently 

 anfwer the purpofe here; for as this dis- 

 order feems bed accounted for by Lewen- Obferva- 

 hoeck, from certain fmall infedls he dif- tion. 

 covered in the puftules by the microfcope; 

 fo it feems as if they were deftroyed by 

 the fleams of brimftone, though only » 



raifed by the heat of the body; for in the 

 human body, the itch may be cured by 

 partial fulphureous un(5lions on the legs 

 only; but where the mange proves ob- 

 ilinate in horfes, let the parts be wafhed 

 with the fubHmate water in Chap, xxv. 

 before the application of the ointment, 

 and fubjoin the internal ufe of fulphur, 

 in order to diffufe the fleams more cer- 

 tainly through the fkin ; there being 

 reafon to believe, as in the itch, that the 

 animalcula may fomctimes lie too deep, 

 to be thoroughly deftroyed by external 

 appjicauons only. 



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