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which, from the experiments of Dr. Macbride, and 

 thofe you have made fince his publication, appears 

 to be the moft powerful corrector of putrefaction 

 hitherto known. I recollected what you had recom- 

 mended to me as defer ving to be tried in putrid dif- 

 eafes, I mean, the injection of this kind of air by 

 way of clyfter, and judged that in the prefent cafe 

 fuch a method was clearly indicated. 



The next morning I mentioned my reflections to 

 Dr. Hird and Dr. Crowther, who kindly attended 

 this young gentleman at my requeft, anil propofed 

 ' the following method of treatment, which, with 

 their approbation, was immediately entered upon. 

 We firft gave him five grains of ipecacoanha,. to 

 evacuate in the moft eafy manner part of the putrid 

 colluvies : he was then allowed to drink freely of 

 brifk orange-wine, which contained a good deal of 

 fixed air, yet had not loft its fweetnefs : the tincture 

 of bark was continued as before; and the water, 

 which he drank along with it, was impregnated 

 with fixed air from the atmofphere of a large vat of 

 fermenting wort, in the manner I had learned from 

 you : inftead of the aftringent, air alone was injected, 

 rollected from a fermenting mixture of chalk and oil 

 jf vitriol : he drank a bottle of orange-wine in the: 

 courle of this day, but refufed any other liquor ex- 

 cept water and his medicine : two. bladders full of 

 air were thrown up in the afternoon. 



23d. His ftools were lefs frequent j their heat 

 likewife and peculiar Jbstor were confiderably dimi- 

 nished: his muttering was much abated, and. the 

 Jubfultus tendinum had left him. Finding that part 

 of the air was rejected when given with, a bladder in 



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