100 ^THE SICK MAJi's COMPANION. 





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tionof the bowels, and the approach to moitifi. 

 cation IS apprehended. Should there le any 

 apprehension of mortification lakina; place, the 

 injections should be administered at the 



very 



commencement of the course of medicine, or at 

 he time of taking the infusion and the canker 

 tea, and a tea-spoonful of number six, should be 

 added to each injection. These directions and 

 remarks are sufficient to give the attendent or 

 practitioner a correct conception of the proper 



m which the first operation of steaming, and the 

 emetic, may in some cases, leave the patient; but 

 in this course of medicine, we are supposing the 

 most desparate attack of disease 



Second steaming. We nill now approach 

 our patient, who may be supposed to have re- 

 covered sufficient strength to converse with the 

 atten.aant In all cases, as soon as the operation 

 ofthc emetic has been completed, and any un- 

 common symptoms which may have attcncled it 

 bave subsided, and the patient has in some de- 

 cree regained h,s strength, a dose of the bitters 

 should be administered, together with some chick- 

 en or beef soup milk porri.lge, gruel, or other 

 hght and nounsh.ng food, after which, he should 

 be permi ted to rest, and if he wish, to sleep un- 



^ *Lm?'1 ''^^'rf' It will now be perceiv- 

 eti, that the heat, (and consequeully the strength,) 



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