The treatment he received was, I have no doubt, judicious, but the quantity of calomel prescribed was enormous.

I asked one day how many grains I should prepare, and was told to give half a teaspoonful.

The difference of climate must, I imagine, make a difference in the effect of this drug, or the practice of the old and new world could hardly differ so widely as it does in the use of it.

Anstey, speaking of the Bath physicians, says, "No one e'er viewed Any one of the medical gentlemen stewed." But I can vouch, upon my own experience, that no similar imputation lies against the gentlemen who prescribe large quantities of calomel in America.

To give one instance in proof of this, when I was afterwards in Montgomery county, near Washington, a physician attended one of our neighbours, and complained that he was himself unwell.