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hands that it is usefull only to aleviate only some of the secondary
symptoms as ulcers &c. Mr Pearson whose practice in this disease is
verry great being Surgeon to a Hospital in Europe a reservoir for
all the Pox in the Kingdom, has written a book exclusively on the
substitutes for mercury for this disease, and from the whole of his
experiments concludes by saying he has rarely seen any good result
from this medicine unless it sweated, and this may be more
Successfully induced by antimony. When ulcers, swellings &c,
occur Guaicum has reduced them, but has never removed the