Mr. schotte’s Journal of the 
to manifeft itfelf the next morning in the higheft degree ; 
hut this I intend to fupport by the following cafes. One 
of the furgeon’s mates drelfed a blifter on the back of a 
foldier, ill of the diford er, with a digeftive foftened with 
oil of turpentine : having done, he came into the fur- 
gery, and looked quite pale, telling me, That the fol- 
dier’s back had fmelled fo putrid and offenlive, that it 
had made him quite faint and lick at the ifomach. He 
took fome tindture of bark and bitters, and went home, 
when a fever, with a train of the worft fymptoms, made 
its appearance in the evening, and he died the third day. 
Another gentleman, who was fent for by the faid fur- 
geon’s mate in the morning of the fecond day of his ill— 
nefs, and requefted to draw up a will for him, arrived 
while I was prefent. He fpoke with the patient for a few 
minutes, and then took me afide, faying, That there was 
a certain fmell about the room, which made him faint 
and lick, at the ftomach, and that he fhould be obliged 
to retire; he did, but in the evening was feized with 
the fever and all its bad fymptoms, went through 
feveral of its Itages, but recovered. A black boy, who 
had been waiting on the faid furgeon’s mate during his 
illnefs, was taken with the fame diforder, and died of it 
in a few days. I could produce feveral other cafes to 
ftrengthen what I have advanced concerning the quick 
appearance 
