[ 8o ] 
Mercury, 
£ 
o 
Alar. 
Slpr. 
65 30 
67 35 
71 % 
8848 
9 C 72 
90 
64 
form into a very hard and fenfible tu- 
mour, generally in the triceps mufcle. 
Emollient plaifters would commonly 
remove the tumour in two days time. 
The morbific matter would give ex- 
quifite pain in its defcent down the 
thigh, and would colled; again into a 
tumour, either in the ham, or in the 
calf of the leg. The fame cataplafms 
continued would repel the tumour, and 
the patient would get well ufually in 
about a fortnight. There was an high 
fever during the time. I never knew 
but one fuppurate, tho’ I have feen 
many in this complaint : this hap- 
pened to a Negro boy about 1 5- years 
old : here the matter defcended to the 
foot, which was very troublefome to 
heal. 
A vaft deal of rain fell this month. 
The wetted: and coldeft April within 
man’s memory. Impetigenous dif- 
orders very common both in Mary- 
land and Virginia, and fome very ob- 
ftinate. 
Seafonable and healthy. 
An uncommon wet month. The hard 
rains beat off the flour, or farina 
fecundans , of the wheat ; fo that very 
little of that grain was made this 
year. 
Much rain. It is very remarkable, that 
many people, this month and the lafl. 
in 
July 
