A Popular Remedy for the Rheumatism

A Popular Remedy for the Rheumatism

                   1(a Powder)Take of mustard three teaspoon^{...}^
                   Sulphur of Antimony six
                   g[r]ains mix them together
                   and [chord] into six [Bons]--
                   One to be taken every Morning in [threw] Mouth --
                   Take a common Bottle of mustard, salt one handful mix in a bottle
                     2Linniment  g Water, camphor one drachm, Opium 2 drachms [disposed]
                    in a gill of spirits, mix the whole together [& rub] the part
                    affected with it. If the parts swell add one drachm Sugar

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[...] He considered the oper
-ations of death upon his system as coeval with
the disease; and several hours before his death,
after repeated efforts to be understood, succeeded
in expressing a desire that he might be permitted
to die without further interruption.
 During the short period of his illness, he econ-
omized his time, in the arrangement of such few
concerns as required his attention, with the ut-
most serenity; and anticipated his approaching
Dissolution with every demonstration of that equa-
nimity, for which his whole life has been so uni-
formly and singularly conspicuous.
      JAMES CRAIK, Attending Phys’n.
      ELISHA C. DICK, Consulting Phys’n.