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other, it feldom is of any fervice. If the ftomach 

 appears to be loaded, a fcruple of ipecacuanha may 

 be given, joined to a grain of emetic tartar, which 

 generally takes effect, and fometimes feems to ex- 

 cite the action of the powder. If we wifti to deter- 

 mine its action downward, an ounce or fix drachms 

 of the bitter purging fait may be taken, and a 

 clyfter of broth and common fait thrown up. 



As to the mode of exhibiting this medicine, I 

 have before obferved, that it may be taken from 

 five to twenty grains at a dofe, and is mod conve- 

 niently given in fomething of a vifcid confidence, 

 as pulp of roafted apple, currant-jelly, or the like.. 

 If put into any thin fluid, as tea, it is apt to fink to 

 the bottom, being of confiderable fpecifick gravity, 

 and indiffoluble in any watery fluid. It has been a 

 great injury to medicine, that this preparation fhould 

 have been kept fo long as an empyrical fecret. It 

 has been by that means extolled in complaints in 

 which it had no falutary efficacy, and was even 

 liable to prove injurious. It is impoffible that any 

 medicine can be fuited to every kind of fever. 

 Some require immediate and large evacuations; in 

 others, fuch a treatment tends infallibly to deftroy 

 the patient; and there is no doubt that the indis- 

 criminate recommendation of this remedy, which 

 D d 3 generally 



