ON THE

NATURE AND CURE OF

CALCULUS, SEA SCURVY, CONSUMP-
TION, CATARRH, AND FEVER:

PRINTED FOR J. MURRAY, N° 32, FLEET STREET.

M.DCC.XCIII.

IN THE

FRANCIS A. COUNTWAY LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

TO THE

DISCOVERER

OF THE VIRTUES OF

VEGETABLE ALKALI, SUPERSATURATED WITH CARBONIC ACID.

IT

SIR,

Our

has been frequently with great confidence affirmed, that our acute pains are of fhort duration. A very flight acquaintance, however, with the tremendous catalogue of human maladies, will fatisfy us that this is the vain aphorifm of a fophift, more anxious to place words in oppofition, than to obferve the courfe of nature. excruciating difeafes are, if I do not compute very much amifs, remarkable for length of paroxyfms, and for frequency of tecurrence; while in thofe of a different character, languor and depreffion are scarce less intolerable than the most intense pain. I hope,

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