no Some Account of the Blood . 
pital at Dantzick *, about two Drams of a 
certain purgative Medicine, which in about; 
four Hours began to operate, and gave the 
Patient five Stools. Hi®'Cafe was Venereal, 
and in fo terrible a Manner, that there were 
iNodes on the Bones of his Arm. But by 
this fingle Injection, and without any other* 
Medicine, the Protuberances gradually dis¬ 
appeared, and the Difeafe was quite cured. 
He like wife ipjeded into the Vein of a mar¬ 
ried Woman, thirty*-five Years old, and trou^ 
' bled from her Birth with Epileptic Fits, a 
fmall Quantity of a purging Rezin diffolved 
in an Anti-Epileptic Spirit; this occafioned 
a few gentle Stools; after which the Fits 
were lefs violent every Time than other, and 
in a fhort Time returned no more at all. 
Dr. Smith p, of the fame City, injeded 
Alteratives into the Veins of three Patients $ 
one was lame with the Gout, another ex¬ 
ceedingly Apoplectic, the third afflided with 
that ftrange Diftemper called the Plica Po~ 
Ionic a ; and they were all cured by the laid 
Ipjedions. 
S.Fkacassati injeded Aqua Fort is into 
the jugular and crural Veins pf a Dog, which 
died immediately. The Blood was found 
fixed in the fmaller Veffels, and the larger 
Veffels burft. Whereupon he remarks, that 
gs an Apoplexy is caufed by a Coagulation of 
*rs- 1 " ' ~ 
\ -N. 
f Pbilojcpk* Txavjatt* Numb- 3 $* f Ibid. 39* 
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