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brine has been applied with advantage, as being lefs 

 painful than muftard, and lefs apt to blifter than 

 cantharides. In the tooth-ache, and pains of the 

 face, a convenient temporary application may be 

 made by mixing a little black pepper ground into 

 powder, with as much brandy or other fpirits as will 

 make it into a foft pafte, which is to be fpread on 

 leather, and applied to the face. This produces a 

 confiderable fenfation of heat, but without any great 

 uneafinefs, and feldom blifters, tho' it is often very 

 efficacious in removing the pain of the part. 



The foregoing application is very ufeful at the 

 firft coming on of a fore-throat, if laid upon the 

 outfide under the chin, and moiftened again with 

 fpirits as it becomes dry. I never knew it blifter, 

 though it is frequently of great fervice. A mixture 

 of fpirits of hartfhorn, with olive oil put upon flan- 

 nel, and laid to the throat, is often advifed; but L 

 think it not fo effectual as the former. 



Medicines that eafe pain, and procure reft, are 

 the next to be confidered -, thefe are of feveral kinds, 

 but Opium, by its greater efficacy, and more con- 

 venient exhibition, has fuperfeded in a great rriea- 



fure all the others. Did opiates produce no other 



effects than thofe above afcribed to them, it would 

 be unneceflary to give any directions relative to 



their 



