Philippe PELLETAN (1747-1829) physician. L.A.S., September 22, 1809, to a colleague; 1 page and a half in-4. Concerning an obvious case of "siphilitic vice" for which he indicates the remedy: "sarsaparilla syrup with the addition of pure muriat oxigenated with mercury in such a proportion that the patient consumes every day a third of a grain of muriat, and an ounce of syrup, the whole washed in three four glasses of a mucilaginous drink". He adds that the treatment should last three months and be repeated in the spring...