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which, from the experiments of Dr. Macbride, and 
thofe yon have made fince his publication, appears 
to be the moft po werful corrector of putrefaction 
hitherto known. I recollected what you had recom- 
mended to me as deferving to be tried in putrid dif- 
eafes, I mean, the injection of this kind of air by 
way of clyfter, and judged that in the prefent cafe 
fuch a method was clearlv indicated. 
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The next morning I mentioned my reflections to 
Dr. Hird and Dr. Crowther, who kindly attended 
this young gentleman at my requeft, and propofed 
the following method of treatment, which, with 
their approbation, was immediately entered upon. 
We firft gave him five grains of ipecacoanha, to 
evacuate in the moft eafy manner part of the putrid 
colluvies : he was then allowed to drink freely of 
brifk orange- wine, which contained a good deal of 
fixed air, yet had not loft its fweetnefs : the tinCture 
of bark was continued as before ; and the water, 
which he drank along with it, was impregnated 
with fixed air from the atmoiphere of a large vat of 
fermenting wort, in the manner I had learned from 
you : inftead of the aftringent, air alone was injected, 
collected from a fermenting mixture of chalk and oil 
of vitriol : he drank a bottle of orange-wine in the 
courfe of this day, but refufed any other liquor ex- 
cept water and his medicine : two bladders full of 
air were thrown up in the afternoon. 
23d. His ftools were lei's frequent; their heat 
likewife and peculiar fast or were considerably dimi- 
nifhed: his muttering was much abated, and the 
Jubfultus tendinum had left him. Finding that part 
of the air was rejected when given with a bladder in 
