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XV. A further Account of the fame Cafe * 
in a Letter to the Right Honourable the 
Lord Cadogan, F. R. S. from the Rev . 
William Henry, D. D . F. R. S. 
My Lord, 
Read June 14, T Have now landing by me Wil- 
1759 A ^ am Carey, the young man, of the 
ofiification of whofe limbs I had the honour formerly 
to acquaint your Lordfhip : and now, in obedience 
to your commands, give an account of his cafe lince 
that time. 
I had him fent up in March lad: to Mercer’s Hof- 
pital in this city. After examining his cafe, the 
phyficians and furgeons concluded, that the only 
probable chance to prevent the progrefs of the oflifi- 
cation, and to remove the evil already effected, was 
putting him into a mercurial courfe. This they tried ; 
and after fome (lighter mercurial medicines, they, in 
the latter end of April, laid him down in a faliva- 
tion, thro’ which he pafled with fafety. 
This dried up the running fores at his elbows, oc- 
cafioned by the burfting of the (kin, thro’ the oflifi- 
cation. Some lighter callus, which was (hooting 
into bones, feems to be foftened : in confcquence of 
which he can move his elbows, and the joints of his 
fingers, with more eafe ; and he has a little more 
clearnefs and vivacity in his countenance : but none 
of the oflified parts are reduced, nor is there any 
appearance of their reduction ; and he dill continues 
to wear an hedtic look. To reduce the oflified parts, 
they 
