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T4th. He refted well, and was feemingly well 
beyond expectation. His diarrhaea dill continuing 
troublefome, he took the hartfhorn decoCtion, with 
an addition of diafcordium. 
15th. I cut off the threads of the external wound, 
and continued dreffings of digeftive in the common 
method. 
1 6th. He grew vifibly better each day after j and 
on Sept. 7th I difcharged him from any further at- 
tendance, his wound being intirely healed over, and 
he is in all refpeCts very well, free from pain, or any 
inconvenience from the wound. He was kept feven 
and twenty days on chicken-broth, and never ad- 
mitted to ufe any folids during that time : afterwards 
he was indulged with young chickens, &c. 
VII. An Account of a Vifitatiojt of the leprous 
Perfons in the IJle of Guadaloupe : In a 
Letter to Monf Damonville, Counfellor and 
AJftft ant- Judge at Martinico, and in the 
Office of King s Phyfician at Guadaloupe. 
By John Andrew Peyflonel, M.D. F.R.S. 
Tranflated from the French. 
S I R, 
Read Feb. 3, "j" Received the letter, which you ho- 
1 noured me with, and the order for 
vifiting the perfons afflicted with the leprofy. I was 
fenfible of the misfortune of being ordered upon that ** 
commiffion : 
