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fomething refembling, though perhaps not quite fo 
bad as, that of the young man, whofe diforder is the 
fubjed: of the following paper. 
And as there is great reafon to believe, that the 
complaint, herein treated of, frequently happens to 
perfons employed in the dyeing bufinefs, they will 
hereafter have a method of cure laid before them, 
which, with little expence, will probably be of great 
fervice to them. And, on that confideration only, I 
have been induced to fubmit this account of the dif- 
eafe to the infpedion of the public. 
The Cafe c/Trancis Newman, Nephew and Appre?itice 
to Mr. Newman, Dyer , in the Maize, Southwark, 
who had loft the UJe oft' his Hands by cleanfmg Br aft's 
Wire . 
F OR the more readily explaining the following 
cafe, it is proper to premife, that, in drawing 
brafs wire for the pin-makers, the frequent paffing 
it through the fire, to anneal it, covers it with a 
cruft, which it is neceffary to take off, before they 
can make ufe of it ; and, for this purpofe, it is fent 
to the dyers, who, letting it lie for fome time in the 
liquor, with which they have dyed what they call 
Saxon colours, (which liquor is compofed of water, 
oil of vitriol, alum, tartar, &c.) and then throwing 
it forcibly three or four times againft the ground, 
the cruft is, by degrees, broken off, and the wire 
rendered bright, and fit for ufe. The gratuity given 
for this is generally allowed to the apprentices ; and 
in this work Francis Newman had frequently (at his 
leiiure hours) employed himfelf, till about the month 
of Auguft 1755?, when the cuticle on the palms of 
