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Lecturer ever known in this Country, after exhausting his own resources,
recommended me to an Apothecary Surgeon - a Mr.
Watson - as one who had practised in this particular line
with a particular degree of success. I took his advice :
the doses of the medicaments I did not preserve, and I
have not charged my memory with them. But the efficient
article was mercury, combined with the muriatic
acid in the form of what used to be corrosive sublimate,
and is now, if my memory does not blunder,
become hyper-muriate of mercury. Night and morning,
by means of a rag, I moistened with it the parts affected, —
an appropriately diluted solution of it, of course.
Item, twice in the 24 hours, I swallowed a solution of
it, I suppose still more diluted : in quantity I think it
was between one and two ounces — peppermint water
to obviate nausea being at my own suggestion substituted
to common water, or some other inoperative liquid.
For some time, this was accompanied with two
small pills less than the size of a small pea, composed, if I do not misrecollect, of gum
giacum with extract of gentian to give consistence
and a small quantity of mercury, which he did not
originally tell me of. This went on till the gums
exhibited a slight sensation of soreness, and the fœtor

Identifier: | JB/012/376/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1827-01	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	376	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	/ / / f4
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	4437
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