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at a confiderable diflance from all opportunities of 
making a full and fatisfadtory inquiry, I judged, that 
it would be more acceptable to your Lordffiip, that I 
lhould defer giving you trouble, until I could give 
you a fatisfadlory anfwer. 
In March 1759, I Iiad this young man brought 
.up to Dublin, and admitted into Mercer’s hofpital. 
The phylicians and furgeons put him under a fali- 
vation ; and afterwards applied, to his arms and joints, 
mercurial plaiilers. The good effedts of this procefs, 
was the drying up the great difcharge of humour, 
which he had at his elbows and wrifts, and an im- 
mediate check to the progrefs of the offification. 
In June following, he was diicharged from the 
hofpital, being furniffied with mercurial plaifters, 
and diredtions. By the advice of the phylicians, he 
went to his own place, near Ballyflianon, on the 
weftern ocean j and there, in purfuance of their di- 
redtions, bathed in the ocean twice a day, during 
that whole fummer and harveft, and conftantly 
rubbed his whole body and limbs over with the juice 
of the quercus marina, immediately after coming 
out of the fea. 
In confequence of this courfe, he happily ex- 
changed his ghaftly hedtic countenance, for an 
healthy and athletic complexion, which continued 
until March 1760. 
About this time his cough returned, his fores be- 
gan to run, and the offification to return. In this 
diftrefs, he came to me to Dublin. With fome dif- 
ficulty I got him admitted again into Mercer’s hofpi- 
tal ; where he continued for fome months, and was 
again treated with mercurial medicines and applica- 
tions, 
