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is fecreted in fmall quantity. This preparation, 

 though apparently fimple, is as likely to fucceed as 

 many others that are more compounded, and may 

 be fafely tried in all cafes where the urinary fecre- 

 tion is defective. It is proper, however, to cau- 

 tion againft the giving diuretic medicines of any 

 kind, when any pain, or heat of urine, accompanies 

 the diminution of its quantity. In fuch cafes, opiate 

 and emollient remedies are proper, joined with fuch 

 as abate inflammation. 



Having thus fpoken of medicines that produce 

 evacuation, I fhall now fpeak of thofe which ftimu- 

 late, and call the powers of life into action. 



Stimulant Medicines may be confidered in prac- 

 tice as of two kinds; one of which tends to give a 

 permanent fupport to the vital powers, the other 

 tends to excite their action in a more temporary 

 manner. Of the former ofthefe, wine, when good, 

 is perhaps the moil generally ufeful in cafes of 

 emergency. It is now found that, in low and putrid 

 fevers, wine may be given with great advantage in 

 larger quantity than was formerly thought practi- 

 cable with fafety, even to two or three bottles in 

 24 hours. Nay, larger quantities have been admi- 

 niftered, but it has been found that even a proper 

 remedy may be over-dofed, and that fuch quantities 



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