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diately after the firft copious evacuations by bleeding and 

 purging ; and, in every inflance, as the falivation came on 

 the difeafe abated. 



Coinciding in fentiment refpeding the ufe of mercury, fo 

 as to produce a falivation, v^^e with plea£ure mention the learn- 

 ed Dr. Rufh of Philadelphia. But the method is more ex- 

 plicitly and highly recommended by James Clark, M.D. 

 F.R.S.E. in a treatife on the yellow fever, as it appeared in the 

 iiland of Dominica, in the years 1 790, 94, 95, and 96. 



The Dodor recommends the free ufe of mercury, both as a 



remedy and preventative ; and fays, " the officers of the army 



and navy, who have leifure and can be prevailed upon, on. their 



airivai m the Welt Indies, to undergo one or two courfes of 

 mercury, take a few laxative medicines, after confining them- 

 felves to a moderate ufe of wine, and living chiefly on vegeta- 

 bles and fruits for the firft two months after their arrival, may 



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rely, almoil to a certainty, on efcaping the fever. 



ISAAC RAND. 

 JOHN WARREN. 



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