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put to bed, with a stone that has been partially 

 cooled in steaming wrapped in wet cloths and 

 placed at his feet. It may sometimes happen 

 that the patient will permit, it may always be a'c- 

 ceeded to, but in either case, the emetic should 

 be immediately administered. In case the heat 

 has been sufficiently raised, and the stomach 



contains a sufficient portion of cayenne, (which 

 is very essential at this time,) the emetic may be 

 given in the canker tea, or any other common 

 warm tea alone; but, if from any cause the steam- 

 ing has not been thonrnghly performed, or if the 

 caye.nne has been thrown from the stomach, a 

 portion of it must be added to the tea with the 

 emetic when it is administered. Three doses of 

 the lobelia, will generally be sufficient, but it 



must be continued until the stomach is thoru^hly 

 closed. ° 



In most of cases, when the course has beeu 

 ^bus far pursued and conducted to the best ad- 

 vantage, the patient will, soon after the com- 

 menecment of the puking, begin to run down, or 

 in other words, he will generally become pale 

 and weak, and continue tn a'mU no u 0,0 »» »nf:i 



times his breatbin 



peak 



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soft, to loud and long, and from the most free 

 and easy, to the most laborious and ierkii 



fact 



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^m well be imagined, calculated to alarm and 



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