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as in Violent pains of the head, delirium of fevers, 

 apoplectic or paralytic feizures, and the like. In 

 fuch didrefling circumdances, it has been frequently 

 found that ftimulant applications to the lower ex- 

 tremities have been of great fervice, and proved a 

 fafe as well as an effectual remedy. Muftard feed 

 bruifed, or in fine powder, as the flour of muftard, 

 is the bed application. If this be mixed with an 

 equal quantity of ftale bread grated down, and made 

 into a rather moift pafte with vinegar, it will form a 

 cataplafm of a proper confidence for the purpofe 

 here intended. If this be fpread about a quarter of 

 an inch thick on a piece of leather or linen cloth, 

 and applied to the foles of the feet, or in extremi- 

 ties to the whole of the feet, it almoft immediately 

 produces a violent burning fenfation, and fome- 

 times, though not always, an inflammation of the 

 part ; and now and then it raifes a blifter. The 

 time it fhould be differed to remain upon, the part, 

 mud be meafured principally by the effects it pro- 

 duces. It fhould not be removed immediately on 

 the fird abatement of the fymptoms, nor need it be 

 kept on till they have entirely ceafed, as the fenfa- 

 tion continues a confiderable time after the cata- 

 plafm is removed. 



In lefs arduous cafes, as in fixed rheumatic pains 



of the hip, fhoulder, or other parts, a plaifter of 



Eel brine 



