CANGRENE. 
paatiaices = equired, a never gave lefs than three or 
four grains in twenty-four hours. 
_ « When the floughs were all caft off, the bones feparated, 
and I had only a clean fore to drefs and heal, I gradually 
off ai medicine. 
« T am very willing to acknowledge, that however well- 
pleafed I might be with the aie = this cafe, yet I really 
regar rded it as accidental ; h fo, that ia very 
opium alone, but ee the cee with it. ent was 
opium, that often refleCting 
_on it, and determining to ufe it by itfelf, whenever another 
opportunity fhould ‘Bos I did fo, and fucceeded in the 
fame happy pega — under the very ee 
circumftances_of feventy-years. of age, a broken, 
- pate aN ad the difeafe making a hafty pro- 
re: 
a? "To relate er which are nearly, or at ie materially 
fimilar, is of no ufe: I fhall therefore onl hat every 
opportunity, ach I have as fince of ae the experi- 
ment, has ftill more and more contjnced me “of the great 
value and utility of this eda nd of its A ig of ref- 
cuing from deftruction perfons ae this a 
* I cannot fay that it ae never eee = : t ‘certainly 
has; but then it has been r fuch circumftances, as [ 
think would fairly account for ae lies 
« T fhould be exceedingly f aay co bomen ritoo 
fhould ts ftill more fo to miflead any body ;.and i Ea 
AJ beg it may be noticed, that I do not propofe the extrac- 
tum cba in this cafe, as an reer ree aS 
se I know, from experience, that it. is not ; 
, from repeated: experience, that it wil, we 
pr oo management and direction, do m 
than all oth r medicines ; ; and that 
ich, I am_ve 
this was an exper iment, i in » which the life or ‘limb, or 
healt h of the patient, was in ee ree endang or by 
which the perfon, on whom coils in any 
degree, be injured, I fhould ae vriteld er I now pub- 
lifh, until a greater length of t nd perience 
Tad rendered it ftill more abfolutely certain ; and I fhould 
have thought myfelf ftri@tly vindicable in fo doing: but as 
this is a medicine whofe ener 
eral effects are well known, and . 
did right in communicating what I had = at ‘thereby 
endeavouring to be ufeful to mankind. | 
ss Hoc opus, hoc ftudium, parvi properemus et ampli, 
Si patria volumus, fi nobis vivere cari.’’ 
“Tf right in my conjecture concerning this he 
zardous ae 1 defteudiive malady ; and if the method which 
have propofed and practifed thovld prove as fuccefsful in 
the hands of-others as it has in mine, { cannot help think- 
ing, that the external or chirur gic eae of the aaa 
might be amended ; that is, might be made to ccincide 
more than it does at prefent with fuch Soin Ind of 
an 
‘Since I have had reafon to one ao cp‘nion, and to 
& in confermity to it, Ihave found more advantage from 
fr caieatly foaking ae foot and ankle in warm milk, than 
from any f{pirituous, or aromatic fomentations hates ver 5 
that is, I have found the one more capable of all Rea 
the pain, which fuch patients almoft alw rays oo than tke 
other ; which circumftance fe Sa as a very m Saee a 
oO ine 
efs; and atrary,; L have 
whatever tended merely to calm, to pve and to relax, 
at leaft retarded the mifchief, if it did do no more. 
«The whole plan.of the chirurgic treatment of this 
difeafe is founded on a general idea oF warming, invigorat- 
ing, rine and refifting aba ; and the means 
generally ma e of are very proper for fuch purpofe : 
but I m uft own ne I think the purpofe, or intention, to be 
impro per. 
*¢ Upon this San the whole theriaca aa and 
the prefent cataplafma é¢ Cymino, have been full are, fo 
freely ufed on this par ey Aco mpofition a this kind, if 
mutt heat and ftimulate, and itis by heat 
ces, 
be, in poi 
ners: ae tae a warm, ftimulating cataplafm, and the other only 
with a poultice made of the farina feminis lini, in boil- 
ing milk or r water, mixed wi buc. or frefh butter, 
that the pain, and the eee ua the diftempers : dg be mauch 
deferves [ with medicine y ma- greater and A sce n the former than in t 
terial harm with it, I thought it would be wrong andunjuft = «When ack or onhel spot - fairly made its ap- 
to conceal whi ccurred to hereb ce on one 0 the t is the general prac- 
earan 
deprive the afflicted of an affiftance which, I verily believe,, ti 
ak 
‘is not to be sae al from any other quarter. 
‘In fhort, from what I have feen and done, I am_per- 
feétly come that, by its means, and by its means folely, 
I —— faved lives which, without it, muft have been loft. 
it preferves.a few of thofe, who are fo unfortunate 
id to labour _ this nafty, painful, lingering, and deftruc- 
e diforder, ‘to which we are all liable,.and which has 
aes moft frequently, foiled all attempts of art, I fhall 
‘ be aed glad to have contributed to fo good an end: i 
ands as fuccefsful as it has with 
but, on the’ other hand, if, 
wld prove in other 
“5 I fhall be fill more fo ; 
‘ 
whether the part be mo ortified or not, it is altogether unne- 
ceflary, the detachment of the cuticle, and the colour of the 
fkin, render that a decided point : if it be not made quite 
through the efchar, it can ferve no purpofe at all; if it be 
made quite through, as there is oe fluid te give dif- 
char arge td, it a age ferve to convey fich medicines as may 
= fuppoted to be beneficial, and therefore right. 
‘ When the upper part of the foot begins to part with 
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