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that are liable to turn sour, as milk, wine, &c. This medicine succeeds equally 

 well in uterine evacuations. In these cases it must be continued 15 or 20 days, 

 giving it every other day, according to the patient's strength, or the quantity 

 given at a dose. With this medicine alone he likewise cured a girl of 18, who 

 had the fluor albus abundantly from the age of 12. 



In obstinate quartan intermittents, which had resisted the most powerful febri- 

 fuges, he had given this medicine on the 2 days of intermission, omitting it the 

 day of the paroxysm ; and continuing it thus, and increasing the dose very gra- 

 dually, the paroxysms grew considerably weaker, and generally the 4th did not 

 return. 



Excepting in the cases of fevers, all the patients, who used the vitrum anti- 

 monii ceratum, drank habitually of a ptisan made with rice, oatmeal, or harts- 

 horn. These ptisans prevent the pains of the stomach, which this medicine 

 sometimes occasions. He had always given this medicine in a bolus incorporated 

 with the bitter extracts, or cordial electuaries. Great care ought to be taken, 

 not to make it up with conserves or syrups of acid fruits, for the reasons already 

 given. 



XLII. Concerning a Dwarf. By John Brotvning, Esq. of Barton-hill, near 



Bristol, p. 278. 



This surprising, but melancholy subject, the son of one Lewis Hopkin, was 

 a young man entering the 15th ye^r of his age, though his stature was no more 

 than 2 feet 7 inches, and his weight 13 lb. labouring under all the miseries and 

 calamities of very old age; weak and emaciated, his eyes dim, his hearing very 

 bad, his countenance fallen, his voice very low and hollow; a dry husky inward 

 cough, low and hollow; his head hanging down before, so that his chin touched 

 his breast; consequently his shoulders were raised, and his back rounded, not 

 unlike a hump-back. His teeth were all decayed and rotten, except one fore 

 tooth below. He was so weak, that he could not stand erect without a support. 



The father and mother both said, that he was naturally sprightly, though 

 weakly, until 7 years old, would attempt to sing and play about, and then 

 weighed IQ lb. and was as tall, if not taller, naturally straight, well grown, and 

 in due proportion ; but that from that period he had gradually declined, and grew 

 weaker, losing his teeth by degrees. The mother was a jolly healthy woman, in 

 the prime of life; the father enjoyed the same blessing. They said also, that this 

 lad has a sister about 10 years of age in the same declining state. 



XLIII. On Comets. By Mr. Rich. Duntlwrne. Dated Cambridge, Oct. 5 



1751. p. 281. 



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