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H conduce to fupport the tone of the ftomach 



without obftrucling the evacuation. The fi 



remedy is proper in fuch fevers as are attended with 

 local inflammation. If given early in fuch com- 

 plaints, it Will generally procure a pafTage, being 

 quick and effectual in its operation, and found by 

 experience to be lefs liable to be thrown up than 

 things much more pleafing to the tafte. The ule 

 of this medicine is not only advifeable in continued 

 fevers, but alfo in the beginning of intermittent^, 

 when the patient is ftrong enough to bear purging. 

 But of this I fhall fay more when I come to fpeak 

 of the ule of the Peruvian bark in that diforder. 



In the advanced (late of all fevers, when the in- 

 flammatory difpofition begins to abate, and a ten- 

 dency to putrefaction to prevail, the faline purga- 

 tives in general are lefs proper than fuch as are of a 

 more warm and ftimulating nature. Rhubarb in 

 fuch cafes is more proper, as being warm and aro- 

 matic, at the fame time that it is purgative. If it 

 be required to be made warmer, one half or one 

 third part of nutmeg, or any other fpice, may be 

 added •, from 20 grains to 60 may be given for a 

 , but this muft vary according to circumstances. 



It is a perplexing circumftance attending the giv- 

 ing purgative medicines internally, that w c cannot 



determine 



