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who died of the Malignant Epidemic at Bojlon, ij^ 



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• The colon in fome parts had been much inflamed, as well 

 as part of the omentum, which was attached to this inteftine. 



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It is worthy of remark, that in both the cafes where the 

 gall bladder had been difeafed, and ceafed to perform its func- 

 idons, or if the liver had been rendered incapable of fecrcting 

 the bile, the body became yellow before death j whereas, in 

 the other, where the bile was found in due quantity, this dr- 

 cumflance did not occur. 



From the above diffec^ions, which evinced a deficiency of 



fecretion in the biliary organs, the indications of cure feemed 

 to be dire<5led towards a coiirfc, which might obviate the in- 



ftaimnatlan^hi general of the organs difeafed, and open the 



excretory ducts or tne liver, tnat uie flina mignt reium 

 courfe into the inteftines. 



It is with the higheft degree of pleafure that we communicate 

 to the public our hopes, that after proper evacuations, the uie 

 pf calomel may be found to anfwer thefe important piirpofes. 

 This medicine has been accordingly ufed with much fuccefs 

 in fifteen patients, within eighteen days, all of whom, except- 

 ing one, have recovered, or have pafl the dangerous period. 



It has been given not in the ufiial dofes, for the purpofe of an 

 evacuant by the inteftines, but in fiaaall dofes of one, two, or 

 three grains, every hour or two, fo as to produce a falivation 



as foon as poflible ; with this view, from one hundred to two 

 hundred and thirty grains of calomel have been given in the 



courfe of three or four days, commencing the ufe of it imme- 

 diately 



