lling of the upper lip, and painful tumours of the joints of the
fingers_, much relieved; but the medicine was left off, on account of
its violent effects on the constitution. _Ib. p._ 42 quoted as above.

A man with _scrophulous tumour of the right elbow_, attended for three
years _with excruciating pains_, was nearly cured by four doses of the
juice taken once a month. _Ib. p._ 43. as above.

The physicians and surgeons of the Worcester Infirmary have employed
it in ointments and poultices with remarkable efficacy. _Ib. p._ 44.
It was recommended to them by Dr. Baylies of Evesham, now of Berlin,
as a remedy for this disease. Dr. Wall gave it a tryal, as well
externally as internally, but their experiments did not lead them to
observe any other properties in it, than those of a highly nauseating
medicine and drastic purgative.

WOUNDS. In considerable estimation for the healing all kinds of
wounds, _Lobel. adv._ 245.

Principally of use in ulcers, which discharge considerably, being of
little advantage in such as are dry. HULSE, in R. hist. 768.

DOCTOR BAYLIES, physician to his Prussian Majesty, informed me, when
at Berlin, that he employed it with great success in caries, and
obstinate sore legs.

DYSPNOEA _Pituitosa_ Sauvages i. 657.--"Boiled in water, or wine,
and drunken doth cut and consume the thicke toughnesse of grosse, and
slimie flegme, and naughtie humours. The same, or boiled with honied
water or sugar, doth scoure and clense the brest, ripeneth and
bringeth foorth tough and clammie flegme. It openeth also the stoppage
of the liver spleene and milt, and of the inwarde parts." GERARDE
hist. ed. I p. 647.

"Whensoever there is need of a rarefying or extenuating of tough
flegme or viscous humours troubling the chest,--the decoction or juice
hereof made up with sugar or honey is availeable, as also to clense
and purge the body both upwards and downwards sometimes, of tough
flegme, and clammy humours, notwithstanding that these qualities are
found to bee in it, there are but few physitions in our times that put
it to these uses, but it is in a manner wholly neglected."

PARKINSON, p. 654.

Previous to the year 1777, you informed me of the great success you
had met with in curing dropsies by means of the fol. Digitalis, which
you then considered as a more certain diuretic than any you had ever
tried. Some time afterwards, Mr. Russel, surgeon, of Worceste