Another Meeting was ordered, and the Tooth-Drawer to be there: Upon Drawing the Tooth, it appeared to be very sound. The First Dose he took of _Mercury_, whether by Cold, or any other Accident, I know not, very much disordered him. I could not conveniently be absent any longer, and therefore the next Day returned into the Country, and do not know how many more Doses the Doctor then took; but in a few Days I received a Letter from him, in which he said, “I know nothing that has succeeded right with me, since I came here: You know what State you left me in, and I was a great deal worse for some Days afterwards; though I hope the _Mercury_ has had no ill Effect, yet I should have been loath to have been so swelled in those Parts, as I have been, willingly. The old _Ulcers_ are not yet healed, they tell me indeed, there is no Appearance of any new Ones, and that the _most effectual_ Methods, which have been taken here, will _infallibly_ prevent every thing, _&c_.” But by his next, which I soon received, I had the melancholy News from him, That the _Ulcer_ was broke out again larger than ever, and therefore that he would be down with me in a Day or two, and he came accordingly, but in a worse State than ever before. And though it again digested, and did as before near heal, yet the returns were quicker, and upon every new Eruption it was larger and worse; and so continued to be, notwithstanding all the good internal Methods continually used by the concurring Advice of Dr _Mead_, Dr _Friend_, and several other Eminent _Physicians_; which no doubt was owing to the malignant Nature of it.