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cases in which he had employed creasote. He said, that some years ago, when creasote was a new remedy, its virtues were much heard of, and the medical journals then abounded with narratives of the alleged cures by it, of almost every disease. As a natural consequence of such exaggerated statements, creasote became much less employed by practitioners than it deserved; and than would have been the case, had the first observers of its therapeutic powers, praised it with less enthusiasm, and more discrimination. Since 1836, when Dr C. published his " Treatise on the Chemical, Physiological, and Medicinal Properties of Creasote," he has made it, uncombined with any other active substance, the subject of very numerous trials in different diseases, with various degrees of success.