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As all the Remedies hitherto Ufed had proved in* 
cffe&ual, Mr . Shipton and I concluded, that a Mer- 
curial Salivation was the moll likely, to conquer a 
Humour daily laying hold of new Bones 5 but we 
thought it improper to put the Patient into it, whilft 
we Hood in need of a Callus for the Knitting of the 
broken Bone, The Cure of it has been completed 
in about fix Weeks, and the Patient has ever iince 
had the full Ufe of it. 
At this time we had an cedematcus Phlegmon over 
the left Brow, with a Fluid undulating there in two 
Places ; and, by way of Addition to the former Coin; 
plaints, a Node alfo was fpringing up with Pain oh 
the Head of the Radius upon the left Arm, attended 
with an oedematous Swelling. In this Condition 
fhe was put into a [Salivation by Unffion. 
This Salivation, copious as it was, was kept up a 
whole Month : In the firft Fortnight of it, the Mat- 
ter, gathered in the oedematous Phlegmons over the 
Brow, intirely difappeared, and then the Oedema 
and Tumour in the Bone upon the Fore-Arms 
where the Nodes were j and thefe being nearly dif- 
folved in the lad Fortnight, we were in Hopes the 
Cure had been brought about without opening the 
Tumours over the Brow, where Matter had been felt, 
and the Bone was thought carious : But our joy was 
not lading, many of the Complaints re-appearing in 
a fhort time after, notwithstanding we took the ut- 
mod Care to confirm the Cure by Salivation, by a 
fubfequent Courfe of Antifcorbutics, the Decodion 
of the Woods, <&c. For as, upon the Retreat or 
Difappcarance of the yellow Spots in the Skin, firft- 
mentioned, the Didemper it) the Skull had begun, 
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