w*< warm bath; but in thegout it is by no means a peculiarly powerful remedy. It is fometimes of ufe in eruptions and malignant ulcers, but at other times has not the leaft effedt in thefe diforders. A girl who was now ufing the bath for the fecond year for her leg that was violently fwelled and affedled with profound ulcers, and in the mean time had poulticed it with the bruifed leaves of mallows and other plants, had obtained no relief; I therefore dif- iiiaded her from uiing either the bath or the leaves, as being of too irritating a nature, and ordered her to ufe a falve made o f wax and honey, partly on account of. its being eafy to be procured, and partly becaufe I knew by experience, that it could do no harm, and might do good. By this remedy the ulcer was healed very fuddenly beyond all expeftation, and the fwelling went down by degrees. A man bathed here for an old inveterate ulcer in his leg, without any effeft; but it Ihould be obferved by the bye, that he got drunk almoft every day.; A Woman had a hard lump in one of her breafts, bigger than a man’s fift. As bathing alone feemed to be of no fervice in this cafe, I made her rub the indurated tumour with a little mercurial ointment; by which means, in fadt, one half of it dif- appeared in the ipace of two days; but the remainder was not in the leaft adted upon, either by the ointment or the bath. This good woman was at that very time, without knowing it, in that iituation, that a few months after bathing ihe was brought to bed. The child, which was quite lively and hearty, had received no damage from the mother’s bathing. A butcher was now uiing the bath for the third month, for an inveterate ulcer in his leg, but without without any peculiar advantage ; though I was acquainted with a magiftrate, who at this place in a ihort time got rid of a bad ulcer in his leg, for which he had long tried in vain every remedy that could be thought of. A young Madagafcar ilave, who had an inveterate ulcer in his leg of three years ftanding and two inches broad, Was fent to the warm bath under my care, on condition that I ihould make ufe of him as my fervant. He had before this been attended, and given over as incurable by a furgeon at the Cape. Being curious to examine anegro’s fleih, I had for fome weeks before we fet off undertaken to look after his fores myfelf. Thefe in general difcharged very little. The raw fleih appéared exactly of the fame colour with that of an European. After the proud-fleih was got under, the ulcer began to heal, by throwing out freih fibres in the fame manner as ours do, with fome- thing whitiih on the fide of thé ikin, which othërwife Was dark-coloured. The procefs, however, went on véry ilowly and tedioufly ; but with the warm bath, the fore in- creâfed both in width and depth. I let him go on bathing neverthelefs, in hopes that the wound would heal of itfelf, after his body had been well cleanfed by a courfs of bathing ; but in this, as I afterwards found, I was very much miftaken. The Have himfelf informed me, that once before, when he was in a ftate o f freedom, and in his native country, he had had this fame complaint come upon him ; that the fore had then, as well as at prefent, broke out of itfelf,- but at that time was healed in a few days, by means o f a certain bark bruifed between two ftonës, and laid upon the part. He faid he knew the tree very
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