_Couns. for the Pris._ But they all agreed in giving calomel? _Dr. Ruston._ All. _Couns. for the Pris._ Did they agree in any other respect? _Dr. Ruston._ Yes: they all gave cathartics, and during the eruptive fever treated their patients in the anti-phlogistic method. _Couns. for the Pris._ Were their patients under any restrictions in regard to diet? _Dr. Ruston._ In general they were ordered to abstain from salt food, spirituous liquors, butter, oil, and such like. _Couns. for the Pris._ You have given a very satisfactory account of these matters. Now give me leave to ask, whether you yourself practise inoculation? _Dr. Ruston._ I do. _Couns. for the Pris._ Do you prepare your patients? _Dr. Ruston._ Certainly. _Couns. for the Pris._ Do you confine your patients to any particular diet? _Dr. Ruston._ I order them to abstain from animal food, spirituous liquors, and spices. _Couns. for the Pris._ And what medicines do you prescribe? _Dr. Ruston._ They consist principally of mercurials and antimonials. _Couns. for the Pris._ Do you believe there is any specific virtue in these medicines? Do you give them as antidotes? _Dr. Ruston._ By no means. I give them merely as evacuants, and accordingly proportion them to the constitution and age of the patient. _Couns. for the Pris._ Can you say any thing, from experience, of the success of your method, compared with that of the Prisoner at the bar? _Dr. Ruston._ I can say, from experience, that my method, in point of success, is fully equal to his. _Couns. for the Pris._ What is your opinion of his cold regimen? _Dr. Ruston._ I approve of it in general, and practise it; but not in the extreme. _Couns. for the Pris._ What is your opinion as to the manner of communicating the infection? _Dr. Ruston._ I think it a matter of little importance. That of just raising the skin with the point of a lancet, which has been dipped into a pustule, and then rubbing the matter which adheres to it on the wound with the finger, seems to be as good a one as any. _Couns. for the Pris._ One question more. Do you think, upon the whole, that the Prisoner at the bar possesses any secret, to which his success is to be attributed? _Dr. Ruston._ I think it must have appeared, from the evidence I have given, that he possesses no secret at all. _Couns. for the Pris._ We shall now recall one of their own witnesses; a gentleman of undoubted veracity; whose evidence, if it have proved any thing against the Prisoner, will, upon farther examination, be found to prove much more in his favour. Dr. BAKER. Pray, Dr. Baker, is the practice of preparing persons for the small pox with calomel peculiar to the Prisoner at the bar? _Dr. Baker._ By no means: it is a very general practice. There are several physicians of credit who insist strenuously on its good effects. _Couns. for the Pris._ Is it common to give purgative medicines on this occasion?