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whole, been attended with more success than 

 either the blood-letting or mercurial practice. 

 During the prevalence of this epidemic in the 

 city of New-York, in the year 1795, 1797, 

 1798, and in 1805, great dependence was 

 placed upon those remedies whose operation 

 was more immediately evinced by their action 

 upon the surface of the body : this was parti- 

 cularly the case, in the treatment of this epi- 

 demic, when it prevailed with its greatest 

 mortality in 1798. From the records which 

 exist of that epidemic, it appears, that, by some 

 practitioners, recourse was had chiefly to mer- 

 curial remedies ; that some made liberal use of 

 blood-letting and other active evacuants, while 

 others again placed their chief dependence 

 upon moderate evacuants and sudorifics. But 

 without enlarging upon this point, I shall 

 briefly state the opinions of Dr. Hosack and 

 Dr. Bard, the distinguished President of the 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons. Having 

 had the most extensive opportunities of wit- 

 nessing this disease, and of employing the dif- 

 ferent methods of treatment, they bear the 



