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an efficacious remedy; which may, if necefTary, be 



repeated with perfed fafety. In cafes, likewife, 



where cough and pain of the bread, though unat- 

 tended with much fever, are fymptoms, I have feen 

 the bed effect from fmall bliders repeatedly applied 

 to the part where the pain was felt; and believe, 



if they were oftener tried when thefe fymptoms are 



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but recent, might prevent many complaints of the 

 lungs, which a fhort neglect renders fatal. I have 

 found it the mod eafy, as well as effectual method 

 of ufing this remedy, to apply it at going to bed, 

 and, if it has rifen, to remove it in the morning, 

 and differ it to heal up, and if neceffary to repeat iu 

 This is lefs troublefome, and I think more effec- 

 tual, than a perpetual blider. 



Bliders are ufeful in pains of the head accom- 

 panying fever, or where any tendency to vertigo or 

 delirium appears. If applied at the firft appear- 

 ance of thefe fymptoms, which are always alarm- 

 ing, they are often of the greated fervice, and fafe 

 in their application. They are mod ferviceable in 

 fuch cafes, if applied to the head when frefh fhavedj 

 but as that cannot always be done, efpecially with 

 women, they mud be put on between the moulders. 

 The fame remedy is often ufed in fome local in- 

 flammations, partly of the external kind. Thus in 

 the inflammation of the eye, or inner part of the 



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