FUM 
body, ae after fome time ee on his {kin inthe form of 
white and very fine calx of quickfilver: a pana te drefs, 
haa ie inner fee fied wit fan ferried 
was then pu The remedy, bein eae generally ed 
“peel Sieted, a any other procefs 
(Abernethy’s Surgiel aa Pie loge 4 
thereby more 
known befor 
3 the e fumigating powder ufed by M. Lalonette was 
very operofe, and confequently a very eapeulve preparation, 
and appeared to have no advantages over one made by ab- 
fraling the muriatic acid from calomel by ae vola- 
tile alkali, Mr. A. has always employed i: ieee, which i is 
prepared at the hofpital in the following manner: Pwo 
drachins of aqua ammoniz are added to fix ounces of diftilled 
calom - are Pe into en li- 
i 
a grey colour, and con 
deal of quic’s/ilver in its metallic {tate, which 
omes OXY dated when 
nto a white 
tains a g00 
of courfe is extremely volatile, but 
raifed into fume, and afterwards condented i 
fubtile powder. 
Tr. A never knew this method fail in curing the lues 
wn “local difeafe of the deli fuch, for inftance, as fre- 
quently takes place in the knee, and in farcomatous enlarge- 
ments of the breaft in women, Mr. Sharp, and fir C. Blicke, 
have long been accultomed to a fumigated flockings, or 
ul — wailtcoats, to be worn ; oe which the complaints have 
relieved, and the conftitu of the patients affected, 
eck the trouble on ut aplenfantnet arifing from the uf 
of the common curial qintm See Abernethy’s 
Surgical and Phyfiological Effays, part 3.) 
r. Pearfon procured Lalonette’s ae tae and made a 
number of oni nts to aceaie the com- 
parative advantages of this method and mercurial friGijons. 
fe found, that the gums became turgid and tender very 
i appearances were fooner re- 
could not be fleadily earn This gentleman conclude Sy 
that where checking the progrefs of the difeafe fuddenly is an 
obje& of Dae moment, where the body is covered with ve- 
nereal ulcers, or where the eruptions are large an aa 
fo that ee {carcely remains a furface large enough to ab- 
forb the ointment, the vapour Of mercury w will bea age: 
But = thinks it extremely difficult thus to introduce 
uantity of mercury into the fyftem to fecure 
i} 
a8 
od 
fo) 
o 
fa’) 
erc 
{ays, is fingularly eflicacions when ood to venereal eee 
ungi, and excrefcences; but this plan requires ah e equal 
quantity of mercury to be given in other ways, as if the 
local application — were not a mercurial one. (Pearfon 
on al ee nerea, oe 
“Ulee 
pee anus in 
_ be lila benehte a in this way ; and in thefe cafes 
the fumes are moit sonny oie by placing a rea- 
hot heater at the bottom of a night-ftool pan, and after 
{prinkling on it a few grains of the red fulp hurated quick. 
filver, placing the patient on the ftool, occafions, 
a fmall appar ats, {old at the fhops, is ufed, which enables 
OL. XV. 
already ment tioned. The bowl or bod 
women are fad t to | 
FUM 
the furgeon to direét the famés through a funnel again the. 
ulcer in oh fituation. 
ough mention kas juft been made of vested excref- 
cences, 2 is nedae saat whether any -are ever really 
of this n excréefcences 
RIUGO wrisy 
ey are as cffetu ired, as ae mercury - beet given. 
Cooper's Pees | of ‘Praétical Surgery, 3 art. Mercury. 
FUMI GATOR, formed of fumt ee an initri- 
ment ufed for injecting ze tate of ‘the imoke of to bacco. 
Clyfters of this kind have 
con{tipation, or obftruCtion of the bowels; an 
admirably adapted to excite the fufpended or extremely 
la aes pea _ inteftines, which aré 
reckoned amon moft irritable sata of the body, and 
eager than nd 
Gafes of r 
‘or apfu a for pee 
tain quantity of tabacco, to which at ula are fattened ae 
ipes ; one of them made of bone, to be inferted inte the 
s 
rths of an ounce o thaces ; Z is epee: 
of reed) lined with. brafs or - and cavere by a top of 
the ies a8 freed a 
ns of a 
ftrument ufed by the French is is compote of fe) 
bling the -bowl of a pipe, red by a lid, . 
part of which is a hole or chimney, for giving ai 
ae at-pleafure. From the fide of this cover proceeds 
tube, about four ear in. length, eg eae - 
the 
of this box is oe a 
kind of tubular ey which ee the ica of a pair 
ows, faftened to it by means of ani in pafling 
tranfverfely through be Me y this ccian when the 
is lirhte s rot nec we! to touch a heated 
le by whic 
all the oy movements: the whole aon is made 
of | oa 
Wrigglefwort th, i in. confequenc das and obferva- 
tions comme ea to him by Dr. Coga ae conftricted 
a fumigator, free from the iaconvent Gees atten 
a half im len 
n inc 
‘admitting two ears, that proje the upper eek 
the box, which by a circular motion lock upon the brim. 
3K The 
