All the above named persons had a rapid and easy recovery, and now enjoy good health. I lost but one patient who had been the subject of early and copious bleeding. His death was evidently induced by a supper of beef-stakes and porter, after he had exhibited the most promising signs of convalescence. OF PURGING. From the great difficulty that was found in discharging bile from the bowels, by the common modes of administering purges, Dr. Griffitts suggested to me the propriety of giving large doses of calomel, without jalap or any other purging medicine, in order to loosen the bile from its close connection with the gall-bladder and duodenum, during the first day of the disease. This method of discharging acrid bile was found useful. I observed the same relief from large evacuations of f[oe]tid bile, in the epidemic of 1797, that I have remarked in the fever of 1793. Mr. Bryce has taken notice of the same salutary effects from similar evacuations, in the yellow fever on board the Busbridge Indiaman, in the year 1792. His words are: "It was observable, that the more dark-coloured and f[oe]tid such discharges were, the more early and certainly did the symptoms disappear. Their good effects were so instantaneous, that I have often seen a man carried up on deck, perfectly delirious with subsultus tendinum, and in a state of the greatest apparent debility, who, after one or two copious evacuations of this kind, has returned of himself, and astonished at his newly acquired strength[2]." Very different are the effects of tonic remedies, when given to remove this apparent debility. The clown who supposes the crooked appearance of a stick, when thrust into a pail of water, to be real, does not err more against the laws of light, than that physician errs against a law of the animal economy, who mistakes the debility which arises from oppression for an exhausted state of the system, and attempts to remove it by stimulating medicines. [2] Annals of Medicine, p. 123. After unlocking the bowels, by means of calomel and jalap, in the beginning of the fever, I found no difficulty afterwards in keeping them gently open by more lenient purges. In addition to those which I have mentioned in the account of the fever of 1793, I yielded to the advice of Dr. Griffitts, by adopting the soluble tartar, and gave small doses of it daily in many cases. It seldom offended the stomach, and generally operated, without griping, in the most plentiful manner. However powerful bleeding and purging were in the cure of this fever, they often required the aid of a _salivation_ to assist them in subduing it. Besides the usual methods of introducing mercury into the system, Dr. Stewart accelerated its action, by obliging his patients to wear socks filled with mercurial ointment; and Dr. Gillespie aimed at the same thing, by injecting the ointment, in a suitable vehicle, into the bowels, in the form of glysters.