12th I found I could not get rid of the Dead flesh in my Arm
without using sumthing to eat it out so I took 20 grains of
lunar costic or nitred of silver & dissolved it in 2 table spoon
full of water & washed the edges whare the dead & living flesh meet
& it began slowly to separate
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