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X. Tin Account of what was ohferv'd 
upon opening the Corpfe of a Ter [on 
who had taken federal Ounces of 
crude Mercury internally ; and of a 
Plumb-Stone lodgd in the Coats of the 
Redtum. Communicated in a Letter 
from the late T)r. Madden, Thyfician 
at Dublin, to Sir Hans Sloane, Bar . 
HE Internal Ufe of crude Mercury is be- 
come fo frequent of late, that I believe it 
may produce fome great Benefit to Mankind here- 
after, if a careful Collection was made of all the 
extraordinary Cafes relating to the good or bad Ef- 
fects of this Practice. 
There are fome Circumflances in the following 
Cafe, which were not owing to the internal Ufe of 
Mercury ; yet there are many others which were 
undoubtedly occafioned by it. 
Some time ago I was prelent, with Dr. Robin fon^ 
and Mr. Nichols , our Surgeon- General, at the open- 
ing the Body of a Gentleman of Note in this Town, 
who, for feveral Years, had found great Difficulty 
in going to Stool. This Diforder increafed upon 
him towards the latter End of bis Life, and he 
was feized with a violent Diftemper, of which 
Tref. R. S. 
SIR , 
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