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icated and conducive to health. Boiled com, 

 is also another excellent article for steaming a 

 person in bed, and frequently produces the niust 

 salutary effects. 



It shou dalso be observed, that in cases of Ions; 

 standing, particularly in consumptioi. and otiuT 

 complaints, when- the digestive powers huve 

 been deran, ed for a considerable length r.f time, 

 ftnd the whole system -consequenlly fil'td with 

 moribed matter, it is iu such cases i^drspen^ibly 

 necessary to always have prepared some goi.d 

 pottage broth, guel, or other ike f.MKl, ?n(M,e- 

 gin giving it as suuii as the emetic com mem es 

 operating; by this means the glands w.ll be sup- 

 plied with nouriashment,sfast as them riiiil mat- 

 ter with which they are charged, shall berem.ived 

 by the medicine, and in this way the stren-th «if 

 the patient may be materially increased b\ every 

 course of medicine which it mny be prnper ta 

 take him through. It may be rem?irk»d, that 

 steaming is of the utmost importance!.. ,.iv.'n'in;; 

 disease, as well as in curing it; for whV.. a ixr-" 

 sou has been exposed to cold, and bv tl^t fore- 

 runner of almost all comi.l.iiut^, c«^^^•'I, is 

 threatened with (iisease, it miy very > ..,u be 

 prevented, aud much sickne-s an 1 k K-n^e 

 saved by standingoversteam, anU foiuvv,,*- the 

 above directions, nil a lively per.pira'i.M -* pro- 

 duced, and the cold entirely tiirown ..T. f .e-e 

 precautions, ifstrictlv adhpri.il ta »....»*.... «,;iK 





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