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'very various, and that at times the medicines were
Arerf Lori-1" and he speaks paeticularly of a Report
which he.made to the Surgeon General on the 7th f
August, 1801, of the unfitness for use of many of the,
medicines, and at the same time produced samples of
them to him. This, he says, caused a direction from
the Surgeon General for the Assembling of a Board
of Medical Officers, of which Dr. Rogerson was Pre-
sident, for the purpose of inspecting the medicines ;
who reported on the articles pointed out by Mr.
Griffith, that they were bad and unfit for use :—and
that many otherswhich had escaped his ( Mr. Griffith's)
notice, were in a similar state. We have applied to
the Army Medical Office for this Report ; but it is
stated to us, that a no trace of such Report can be
found."

Mr. Griffith says too, that whilst he was attending
at the York Hospital, the Surgeon General gave him
two samples of opium, which had been sent from the
Army Elaboratory to two militia regiments, which,
on examination by Mr. Griffith, appeared to be of bad
quality.
But Mr. Calvert Clarke states., that there never was
any complaint of the quality of the medicines from
the Physician General, although there have been some
at times from Regimental Surgeons. The only in-
stance, however, of any moment in his recollection,
was in January, 1804, when, on a complaint being
made by the Surgeon of the West Suffolk Militia, of
she quality of some barn, an Army Medical Board,
he says, was summoned ; and he, in answer to the
complaint pmduced,as-it appears, certificates from two
persons of eminence in the profession, that the speci-
mens of bark which Mn Clarke had sent them were
of excellent quality.
The Apothecary General must be considered as
generallrresponsible, also, for the packing of the an,
tides issued from the Elaboratory. On this head
there are stronger reasons for believing that the pub.
lie has sustained a considerable loss, than in respect
of the had quality of the articles.
Dr. Borland says, that whilst serving in the
West Indies, he has observed the packing, in many
instances, by no means good ; and he has seen imtru-
ments- Olere so loaded with rust as not to be fit for
use." •

Mr. Young observes; that the packing of the arti-
cles sent to the West Indies was in general not proper;
for•the liquids and powders should have been packed'
in separate cases. He speaks alsu of Surgical Insru-
nicnts arriving in a bad state; but he does not know
the cause: of it ; .and adds, that while he was serving
in Egypt, " sets of instruments which were sent out
were spoiled by improper package, from some oil of
vitriol, as he understood, having been packed in the
same cases with them."

Mr. Clarke recollects only one instance (which is
probably that last mentioned by Mr. Young) of com-
plaint having been made of the improper package of
articles sent from the .ElatOratory, acid that was by
the Surgeon General, of some instruments sent to
Egypt in 1800 or 1801,-•having been packed with
volatile spirits, by which; means they were damaged.
Upon this occasion, he • says, the Surgeon General
gave notice to the Apothecary General, that in future
he should he responsible for such losses. We must
notice, that Mr. Clarke afterwards substituted the
word " dulcitied" for " volatile ;" which spirit, he
adds, would not corrode iron : he rather imagines,
therefore, that the injury . done arose from the long
stowage in the hold of the ship ; and he further adds,
that occasional complaints of breakage had been
made, which had been referred to the Comptrollers.
of Army Accounts.

We have seen many reports to the Surgeon Gene-
ral from a Board consisting of Doctor WGregor, as
President, and of a Staff Surgeon and an Apothe-
cary, who have been employed December 1806
in insptcting the Medical stores at Porchester Castle,
near Portsmouth ; in which it appears, that in some
packages the contents did not correspond with the in-
voice put tip with them at the Elaboratory ; and that,
in a-variety or instances, great loss had arisen from
bad corking and breakage. The breakage, Doctor
M'Gregor thinks, bad chiefly proceeded from impro-
per pacicage ; and, he says, that in one instance, the
breakage from this cause was " so enormous," that,4
in a special report to the Surgeon General, he stated
" that it was such as no Surgeon, would in any case,
submit to from his Druggist. •
Mr. Hoffe, who has been employed for about
eighteen months as the Apothecary at a large depot,
of medicines at York Hospital, Chelsea, thinks that
,the articles coming directly from the Army Elabora-
tory were, in general, well packed • but that the
bottles were sometimes badly corked- On a visit
which two of our Board made to that depot, they
had an opportunity of noticing this defect. The loss
frOni this cause, considering the quantity of the stores
from which the bottles were said to be selected, was
comparatively of little amount; but it is obvious,
that on foreign service, a leakage may at times pro-
duce much mischief, as well as a great disappoint-
ment ; and, we must remark, that as the waste from
the bad Corking,,shewn to the Members of our Board,
was in the packtges which had come immediately
from the Elalsoratory to the York depot, it is proba-
' ble that the loss has been much greater from this cause
in those packages which have 'been aibjected to dis-
tant carriage. •
lAhen losses of this kind have appeared, these. can •
be no doubt but that the Apothecary General shOuld
be made responsible for them. The Surgeon General,
who was present at. this visit to the depot, informed
our Members, that in this case the loss would be
charged against the Apothecary General. But we
cannot iinethat any charge has hitherto been made
for similar _ losses, although that which appeared at
the York Hospital snfficiently Confirms the statement
before given, that they have existed.
We shall conclude our observations on the packing
of the " medicines issued from the Elaboratory, with
referring; to the suggestions of Mr. Young, in his
answer to. our I gth question, recommending some al-
teration in the mode of packing medicines intended
for foreign service:
Subsequent to the period of our having._ collected
the information on which the preceding statement of
this branch of our Report bas been made,' we have
learned that directions were given by the Secretary at
War, on the Rth of July last, that upon the arrival
of any hospital supplies at any station abroad, at the
general hospitals at home, or at the depots of I)eal,
Gosport, and Ply-mouth, a Medical. Board, of not less 1
than three Commissioned Officers, was to be appoint-
ed to examine into the condition of the articles re-

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THE Case of several Srrophulous Ulcers at York,
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I MPORT.-k N DI t. 20 VE It Y.
THE Advantage the Public must altylys derive
from regularly educated professional men edit-et:Mg eancst
exclusively their StiiilicA to one species of mandy, was never mow
clearly demonstrated than by the unto:ample-el success which has
attended the administcarion of their raw remedy, and the extraor-
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CUR ate, and Co. Surgeons, formerly in his Majesty's service, have
made the Venereal Disease the particular object of their investi-
gation, and are happy in having discovered a inediciue superior to
mercury in the cure of that complaint ; it is sufficient to observe
that the efforts uf this remedy are dianietrir.t!!y opp(Aite to those
of mercury, for though it completely eradicates every vestige of
the virus, in its most.contirmed stages, yet it dates rot in the least
injure the cousiitution ; or the contrary, it relior.itei the systnni
is all its natiiral fetctiors, promotes appetite, and facilitates di-
gestion the:. irstead of reaiti.'ilig a strong and vigorous constitu-
tion to the frightful condition elvat mercury doe.., it not only pro-
seee;s that constitution in its primitive state, but restores a weak
and debilitated one to its natural strength and vigour. Number-
less instances are on hared record of the superior efficacy of this
nuslieime, its inherent and specific virtues acting as a perpetual
corrective' to biodily debility, wh thr proceeding twin an r‘Cel
of conjugal or illicit pleasure., or front the. more insidious, though
nut less destructive, indulgence ot iocnutious youth ~.f both sex,*
in a certain pernicious; habit. Amidst the melancholy variety of
disorders which are the consequence of this solitary vice, there are
none more afflicting- than that distressing state of debility and de-
ficiency which prevents or embitters the matrimonial state; the
unhappy st:iferer broods over his misfortune, ashamed to seek re-
lief, until he is reduced to sect a state of weakness as to :littler
life oppressive. 'l'o such persons it must he a consoling reflec-
tion to know, that tiny may now, by a new infallible mode of
treatment, be restored to that greatest of all Wausau blessings,
strong, manly and vigorous constitution.
In all cases of debility, delicimcy, front whatever cause arising,
as well as in every species of veurreal infection, Messrs. Curtis
and Cu. may 1).: enusultcd by patients of either sex with the
greatest secrecy and honour, at their house, No. 107, Hatton.
Carden. Patients ia the country describing the psnicuiars of
their complaints, by letter post paid, enclosing a Bank note, will
have the necessary medicine and advice sent to an part .of the
kingdom. No. 107. Hamm Ganlote.

TO THOMAS TAYLOR, ESQ.
No. 9, NEW bRIDGE-STREET, LONDON.
SIONOUREDSIII,
IBEG leave to inform you, that ever since the year
1790,1 had been afflicted with the I.ues Venerea ; which, from
Its obstinately residing every course of medicine prescribed by rte
most emittrnt of the faculty here, end undergoing several severe
courses of salivation, and twice discharged from the Hospital, with
little relief, would appear to be of the most inveterate nature. In
the spring of last year my disorder had got to such a Lead, as
nearly to put a period to my existence. I had a large ulcer on t'ae
crown of my head, one on each arm, and my legs were broken
out in a frightful manner ; my right was dreadfully painful, and
had been in a state of ulceration tar the last seven years; my left
had also two node: upon it, was very much discohmred, and gave
me such excruciating pain, particularly when warm in bed, as
nearly to deprive me of rest; in this lamentable state, I was re-
commended by Mr. I. Thompson, (who received so gloat a cure
by them here,) to take your Leake's Patent Pills, which I began
to do on the .2oth May; in the course of a fortnight I began to
receive benefit—in little more than a month tha ulcers on my
head and .arms were soundly heals -I—soon after, the sores on mr
leg healed also: leaving, however, considerable diseulcura•
tion in the skin, and pain in the bone of the left, which, by the
bbissing of God, and a little longer perscvesance in you: invalua-
ble Medicine, subsided ; the nodes dispersing, the skin regaining
its natural hue, and the nocturt:ai pains gradually going off—l thus
became, by your liberal advice and medicine, perfectly free fro.
my lot mer complaiAts—have recovered my former spirits and
strength, and am become jolly and fat, in which state having con*
tinned many months to the astonishment of all who kmw me, I
am at a loss in what terms to express my gratitude, but beg you,
for the good of other suffering mortals, to make this my case as
pt.blie 3s possible, as I shall on every occasion—in so doing yon
will greatly oblige, Sir, your grateful obedient very humble sot
'earn, ALEX. MU /MLR.
_ .

Swan's Close, High-street, Edinburgh.
Witnesses to tke above Cure,
John Thompson, No. 3, New Poultry-market, Edinburgh.
John Nl`lntosh, Old Assembly Close, Edinburgh.
Prepared and sold by the sole Proprietor, Thomas Taylor,.
Member of the Royal College of Surgeohs in Loudon, at his hou►e,
No. 9, New lirid7e-street ; where, atter a constant rttidenei of
more than 40 years, in a practice particularly directed to tend
Cure of Venereal Complaihts, and those incidental to tat"
Parts of Generation, with that inviolable secrecy which t.e
of his profession should always observe in such cases, he flat.,
ters himself, the advice and assistance he gratuitously adtniw
!tigers to persons taking this Medicine, will be esteemed, by adjs.,
cerning Public, as an advantage seldom attained and void of all
ambiguity.

'They :Are also snld by his appointment, at the Perfumer'i, No.
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on which,by favour of theCommissioneri, is printecl,at the Stamp
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si felony, and all others are counterfeit.

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