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 also wrote a valuable note on scurvy in seamen, recommending a more abundant supply of vegetables on voyages, and was the first to describe the malignant ulcerous sore throat now called diphtheria.

Huxham's formula for Tinct. Cinchonæ Co. as given by himself was as follows:

Cort. Peruv. opt. pulv. ii, Flav. Aurant. Hispan. iss, Rad. serpent. Virgin. iii, Croci Anglic. iv., Coccinel. ii, Sp. Vini Gallici, (Brandy), xx. F. Infusio clausa per dies aliquot (tres saltern quatuerve) deinde coletur. The dose was i to  ss every 4, 6, or 8 hours with 10, 15, or 20 drops of elixir of vitriol in diluted wine. Huxham says of this tincture "it tends to strengthen the Solids, to prevent the further Dissolution and Corruption of the blood and in the event to restore its Crassis." He has previously stated that it is a very useful remedy "not only in slow, nervous fevers, but also in the putrid, pestilential, and petechial, especially in the Decline." But he adds, "if the patient is costive or hath a tense and humid abdomen, I always premise a dose of rhubarb, manna, or the like."

According to Dr. Paris, Huxham believed in complicated prescribing. "There are several prescriptions of Huxham extant," we read in "Pharmacologia," "which contain more than four hundred ingredients."

Sir Clements Markham, whose services in introducing cinchona culture into India and Ceylon are well known, has earnestly insisted on the adoption of the name chinchona instead of cinchona in justice to the lady after whom the generic title was chosen. In a Memoir of the Lady Ana de Osorio, Countess of Chinchon,