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a late or recent case of this disease. I have done more good here, by
blisters and many other remidies than calomel, the patient always
appears to be better when the salivation is first exciting, but when the
novelty of that state is worn off he becomes worse. Dr Radcliff employ'd
it upon William the 3d and cured him, more than 100 years ago,
the great difficulty of exciting a salivation here forms an objection.

In the Cynanche Maligna, Scarlatina Anguinosa or Ulcerous
sore throat Mercury was first used in Boston 60 or 70 years ago by Dr
Douglass he used it in the shape of Calomel and excited a
salivation, he is said to have been very successfull and he asserts he found
the disease to bear no other evacuation than from the salivary glands
by means of mercury. Dr Samuel Borel and Dr Legg have
published a treatise on this disease and speaks in high terms of
mercury in combination with opium and senaka in this disease,
upon this authenticity I have long given mercurial Purges, they
are my favourites, I sometimes combine Ipecac with them to induce
vomiting. I often give the turbith mineral for a puke and combine it
sometimes with Jalap or rhubarb. I have been told that some of the
Baltimore Physicians use a gargle made of a strong solution of
Corosive Sublimate but I have no doubt is well adapted to the disease. In