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should also be occasionally taken, sufficient \o 

 continue a slight perspiration, and prevent taking 

 cold. 



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comfortable afier the second steaming^ and all 

 po.s^illle pains $»hou1d be taken to keep him in 

 the same situation and tu restore his natural 

 health^ and consequently his strenjiijtl), IS o pains 

 should be spared in keeping every thing cum- 



foi table around him^ and care sliould be taken to 

 administer the hitttrs and cayenne freely, the 



former tu correct the bile and ^treni:;then the di- 

 geslive organs, in order that the food;, the natur* 

 al fuel which supports the fire of life^ may keep 

 up the heat, until a sufficient quantity of that 



food can be taken and properly digested 

 to render the cayenne no lunger necssary 

 for that purpose. The hitlers and the syrup^ 

 should be taken freely after this course of medi- 

 cine, as they are both good to strengthen the 

 stomach and bowels and restore weak patients, 

 n most of disoideis, especially those which are 

 so very common and of a mild nature, one course 

 of medicine will be highly sufficient to remove 

 the disease, hut in more violent attacks, and ia 

 cases of long standing and a stuhhdrn character, 

 it may require eight or ten, and even as hisib as 



twenty or thirty in the course of i\\ o or three 

 ks before the disease can be fairlv conouered 



