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thefe, though not fo general as was formerly thought, 

 ftill forms an important indication. The common 

 catarrhous cold is more effectually relieved by pro- 

 moting this evacuation than by any other means, and 

 the fame was obferved of the influenza, when that 

 complaint was epidemic fome years ago. Rheu- 

 matic complaints are alfo benefited by it, and many 

 other flight febrile complaints. Nothing, however, 

 has been more miftaken, than- the moil effectual 

 means of producing this difcharge. External heat 

 is generally thought neceffaryj but it has been dis- 

 covered of late years, that the body may eafily be 

 made too hot to fweat, and that there is often no 

 method more powerful than by diminifhing the 

 heat of the body when too great, and that it is often 

 neceffary, in order to promote perfpiration, to take 

 off part of the bed-clothes, diminifh the heat of the 

 room by removing the fire and opening the win- 

 dows, and to give cool liquors to the patient. 



Nothing fucceeds better with this view in the com- 

 mon catarrhous cold, which requires fome difcharge 

 by perfpiration as much as any complaint what- 

 ever, than to bathe the feet at night for a quarter of 

 an hour in water made about blood-warm, and to 

 take a moderate dofe of fpirits of hartfhorn in a pint 

 of warm whey, gruel, or infufion of fome garden 

 herbs, as balm, mint, &c. This is perhaps the 



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