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![diet confiding chiefly of cooling laxative vege- tables, and by drinking butter milk, or whey fweetened with honey, or the like. The pa- tient ought to be conftantly cheerful, and fhould take as much exercife as he can eafily bear. When the bottom and Tides of an ulcer feem hard and callous, they may be fprinkled twice a- day with a little red precipitate of mercury, and afterwards drefied with the yellow bajillcum oint- ment. Some chufe to have the edges of the ul- cer fcarified with a lancet; but this operation ought to be performed by a furgeon. Lime-water has frequently been known to have very happy effefts in the cure of obftinate ulcers. It may be ufed in the fame manner as directed for the done and gravel. My late learned and ingenious friend, Dr Whytt, ftrongly recommends the ufe of a foiu- tion of the corrolive fublimate of mercury in brandy, for the cure of obftinate ill-condition- ed ulcers. 1 have frequently found this medi- cine, when given according to the Doctor’s di- rections, prove very fuccefsful; but it fhould never be administered without the greateft care. It is made by difib]ving four grains of the corrofive fublimate of mercury in eight ounces of the belt French brandy. The dofe is a table-fpoonful night and morning; at the fame time walking the fore twice or thrice a-day with it. In a letter which I had from the Do&or a ~ltt,e befofe itis death, he informs me, “That lie obferved wafliing the fore thrice a-day with a folu-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21721890_0631.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
