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November 18, 2025HARPERS FERRY, (Vir.) July 17.
Medical Discovery.– Doctor T. C. Smith, of Dublin, lately obtained 5,800 premium from the English Parliament for the undermentioned recipe for Typhus malignant Fevers.
Six drachms of powdered nitre, six drachms of oil of vitriol; mix them in a tea cup, adding to the nitre one drachm of the oil at a time. The cup to be placed during the preparation on a hot hearth or plate of heated iron, and the mixture stirred with a tobacco pipe. The cup to be placed in different parts of the sick room.
Communicated for the benefit of the public by Mr. John O’Donovan, chymist, of this place, a gentleman who, since his short residence here, has rendered most essential services to many, by chymical discoveries, in some of the most obstinate cases which still continue to baffle the art of physic, particularly rheumatism and dysentery.
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