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It may be taken with confiderable advantage in 

 rheumatic cafes of Jong duration, where die pain is 

 rather tedious and troublefome than acute, and 

 attended widi little or no fever. This medicine 

 may be continued a confiderable time, feveral 

 months for inftance, with lefs injury to die health 

 and conftitution in general, than might be expe&ed 

 from the long ufe of fubftances, whofe fenfible qua- 

 lities are fo powerful. 



Stimulant applications of the external kind are next 

 to be confidered. The principal of thefe are Blifters* 

 The proper ufe of thefe in many inftances is at- 

 tended with much nicety, and of courfe not a fub- 

 jedt of my prefent treatife, which is only to give 

 cautions, and to recommend the ufe of fuch reme- 

 dies as may be applied with fafety in fuch circum- 

 ftances as are obvious to common understandings, 

 independant of medical knowledge. — Neverthelefs, 

 there are, I think, many opportunities of their be- 

 ing employed with fafety and probability of advan- 

 tage, in circumftances that require no great medical 

 knowledge to difcover. Thus the ufe of blifters is 

 advifeable in all internal pains, whether of the bread, 

 fide, or belly, attended with fever. In fuch cafes, 

 after bleeding, a blifter, applied as near to the feat 

 of the pain as poflible, is a fafe, and in general, if 

 put on early after the commencement of the difeafe, 



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