THE SICK M\:rs COMPANION. ll 



atitl may be used toi^ether or separate. When 

 the violence of the disease requires a course of 

 medicine, steep one ounce of the above mention- 

 ed powder, No. 2, in a pint of boiling water^ 

 strain off a wine glass fall while hot, and add a 

 tea-spoonful of No. 3, and the same quantity of 

 sugar; when cool enough to take, add a tea-spoon- 

 ful of No. 1, and half that quantity of nerve 

 powder. Let this dose be given three times at in- 

 tervals of fifteen minutes: and let the same com- 

 pound be given by injection, and if the case re- 

 quires it, Jagain, repeat it. If mortification is. 

 apprehended, a lea-spoonful of No. 6, may be 

 added to each dose, and to the injections. 



After the patient lias recovered sufficiently 

 from the operation of the medicine; which is 

 usually in two or three hours, place him over the 

 steam as directed under the head of steaming. 



This ope»'ation is sufficient for one time, and 

 must be repeated each day, or every other day, 

 as the circumstances of the case may require, till 

 the disorder is removed. Three times will gen- 

 erally be sufficient and sometimes once or twice 

 will answer the pnr[)Ose; but in bad chronic ca- 

 ses it may be necessary to continue to carry him 

 throu2;h a re^rular course, two or three limes a 

 week, for a considerable length of tiipc 



Great care must l)e taken to keep up an inter- 

 nal heat, so as to produce perspiration, after 

 they Ijavebeen tlirough the operation, by giving 



