2 02 Mr. Saunders’s Account of the 
put Vermillion, and fometimes mufk. Nitre, as a cooler, is 
very much ufed internally by them in this difeafe, and they 
itridly enjoin warmth and confinement during the flighteft 
mercurial courfe. Buboes advanced to fuppuration are opened 
by a lancet, with a large incifion, which they do not allow to 
clofe before the hardnefs and tumor are gone. In fhort, I found 
very little room for improving their pradice in this difeafe. I 
introduced the method of killing quickfiiver with honey, gave 
them an opportunity of feeing it done, and had the fatisfadion 
of finding it fuccefsfully ufed by themfelves before w r e left the 
country. 
This happy climate prefents us with but little variety in 
their difeafes. Coughs, colds, and rheumatifm, are more fre- 
quent here than in Bengal. Fevers generally arife here from 
a temporary caufe, are eafily removed, and feldom prove fatal. 
The liver difeafe is occafionally to be met with, and complaints 
in the bowels are not unfrequent ; but the groffnefs of their food, 
and uncleanlinefs of their perfons, would in any other climate be 
the fource of conftant difeafe and ficknefs. They are ignorant 
(as we were, not many years ago) of the proper method of treat- 
ing difeafes of the liver and other vifcera ; this is, I believe, the 
caufe of the moft obftinate and fatal difeafe to be met with in 
the country, I mean the dropfy. As the Rajah had ever been 
dehrous of my aid and advice, and had direded his doctors to 
attend to my private inftrudions and practice, I endeavoured to 
introduce a more judicious method of treating thofe difeafes by 
mercurial preparations. I had an opportunity of proving the 
advantage of this plan to their convidion in feveral inflances, 
and of feeing them initiated in the pradice. 
The Rajah favoured me with above feventy fpecimens of the 
medicines in ufe with them. They have many forts of ftones and 
petrifadions 
