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much confinement ia fine weather and requires only to be regular &
moderate in the Diet. but observe that the drinking of Lignum vitse
Decoctions or using the gums of it prevent all the effects of mercury
for a considerable time so that giving these medecines to such for a
considerable time after the use of Lignum vitse will be ineffectual. & to
such as have been lately salivated they must be given with the greatest
caution, for in such any preparation of mercury is apt to renew the
spiting. The Medecine is this. viz. Take Nine, 9, drachm. of
Sarsa-parilla reduced to a fine powder, four drachms of the purest crud
mercury, put them into a marble morter & ad as much water gradually as
will brink the powder into the consistance of pills, bolus3, or Electuary,
rubing it at the same time very well. In this like the other the
mercury will be soon incorporated & perfectly extinguished & then it may
be given to one scruple one a day or half a scruple twice a day for 3
or four days, then you augment the dose to half a drachm pr Diem
for 4 Days after wh you may augment it to, 50, gr. or one drachm to
be used for a continuance, with a liltle light Decoction of Sarsaparilla,
untiil the cure is perfect. Observe, dureing this course it is not
un-common to feel a soreness in the mouth & troath. then you are to
drop the Medecine for one, 2, or, 3 days & the Symptom will vanish
without purge or any other medecine after which you proceed again
with the mercurial medecine & so (toties quoties) untiil the cure is
perfect, wh is generally performed in about, 5, or, 6, weeks often in one
month. but in this also, the quantity of the Dose may be varied. some
require larger doses; tender persons, & those used to the taking of
mercury or such as have been salivated must not have the proportion of
mercury, they must have smaller doses & those more seldom & always
used with the Decoction of Sarsaparilla, wh other ways is not always,
no, nor often necessary. Would you, sir, expect the Sarsaparilla could
have so powerfull an effect of carriing mercury by the skin, I confess I
only hoped some assistance from it in the cure of the Yaws but the
effects of the composition have been so extraordinary, that I have
after-wards ordered it for some hundreds with perfect success, both in that
disease, for wh before there was no perfect cure & in all appearances of
the venereal Disease. N. B. in incipient Buboes I have intermixt the use
of the first pills with rubarb, & chankres are made perfectly easy by the
following wash viz. R. Mercurii corrosivi sublim. 3 i. sp. vini rectificati
§ i. flat solutio perfecta in mortario vitreo: 8, or 10 drops of this in 2
table spoonfulls of warm water, serves not only as a wash but but dipt
in the water also & layed to those burning sores bis die soon clears
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