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danger is prevented. ‘When fevers of a putrid kind threaten, the beft method of | 
obviating their effects is by repeated vomits. Almoft every perfon in a fever coms; 
plains of great thirft, and calls out for drink, efpecially of a cooling nature. This. 
at once points out the ufe of water and other cooling liguors.. What.is fo likely to 
abate the heat, attenuate the humours, remove fpafns and obftruGtions, promote 
perfpiration, increafe the quantity of urine, and, in fhort, produce every falutary. eh. 
feét in an ardent or inflammatory fever, as drinking plentifully of water, thin gruel, . 
or any other weak liquor of which water is the bafis? The neceffity of diluted dix, 
quors is pointed out by the dry tongue, the parched fkin, and the buraing heart, as. 
well as by the unquenchable thirft, of the patient. Many cooling liquors, which are:. 
extremely grateful to patients in a fever, may be prepared from fruits, as decogtions 
of tamarinds, apple-tree, orange-whey, and the like. Mucilaginous liquors might. 
alfo be prepared from marfhmallow roots, linfeed, lime-tree buds, and other mild 
vegetables particularly pointed out in the Herbal. Thefe liquors, efpecially when 
acidulated, are highly agreeable to the patient, and fhould never. be denied him. 
In fevers the mind as well as body fhould be kept eafy. Company, is feldom agree. 
able to one thatis fick. Indeed every thing that difturbs the imagination. increafes, 
the difeafe; for whichreafon every perfon ina fever ought, to be kept perfectly, quiet, 
- and neither allowed to fee or hear any thing that may in the leaft affect or difcompofe.. 
_. hismind. What food the patient takes fhould be in fmall quantity, light, and of 
eafy digeftion. It ought to be chiefly of the vegetable kind, as panada, roafted,ap- 
ples, gruels, and fuch like, The frefh air fhould likewife be taken as much as. pol. 
fible; it-not only removes his anxiety, but. cools the blood, revives. the Spirits, . and | 
proves every way beneficial.. Amongft common people, the very name. of ,a fever. 
generally fuggefts the neceflity of bleeding. This notion feems to haye taken its. 
rifé from moft fevers in this country having been formerly of an inflammatory na- 
tures but true inflammatory fevers are now. feldom to be met with, ., Sedentary oc-,. 
upations, and a different manner of living, have fo changed the ftate of vee 
a 1 . there is now et one fever i in ten where the lancet_ is epi 
| od 1 e, never to ‘bleed at the beginning ¢ ‘of a fever, unlefs there be evident 
i 2 mation , Bleedingi is an excellent medicine when neceflary, butfhould.. 
anton); ‘pétformed. It is likewife a common notion, that, fweating is al-. 
ways neceffary in the beginning of a fever. When. the fever proceeds from an ob- 
ftru&ted perfpiration, this ‘notion i is not ill-founded. If the patient only lies in bed, 
batheshis feet and legs in warm water, and drinks freely of water-gruel, oranyt o 
weak diluting liquor, he will feldom fail to bettie. freely, ‘The, ape of 
