got well. The method I found fuc- 
cefsful, after trying many others, was 
to give opiates, at proper intervals, till 
the purging and bloody ftools ceafed : 
then four or five dofes of Dr. Parfons’s 
powders : afterwards a few dofes of 
aftringents, which never failed of cur- 
ing. The opiate I ufed was pil. mat - 
thai-, which I fuppoled belt in this 
putrid bilious complaint, becaufe of 
the foap in its compofition. It is re- 
markable, that the frequent repetition 
of the ftrongeft aftringents never de- 
creafed the quantity or number of the 
ftools, till Dr. Parfons’s powders were 
given, 1 hefe valuable powders, which 
that ingenious and benevolent gentle- 
man communicated to me, when I 
was at London, have been of incre- 
dible fervice in the plantations. I am 
perfuaded he will readily inform any 
practitioner what they are ; and that 
nothing is wanting to bring them into 
general ufe, in all bilious and putrid 
fevers, but a thorough knowledge of 
their extraordinary efficacy. 
The hepatic flux fpreads very much in 
my neighbourhood. On the 2 2d I 
was called to a family, where the 
miftreis and maid were both down 
with this diforder, and appeared to 
have it very much alike. They were 
much griped, and purged more than 
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