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fevers, the great point is to regulate the fymptoms, fo as to prevent them from going 
to either extreme. Thus, in fevers of the inflammatory kind, where the force of 
the circulation is too great, or the blood denfe, and the fibres too rigid, bleeding and 
other evacuations are neceffary. But, in nervous fevers, where nature flags, where 
the blood is vapid and poor, and the folids relaxed, the lancet mutt be fpared, and 
wine, with other cordials, plentifully adminiftered.. Though bleeding is generally 
ace in this difeafe, yet bliftering is highly neceflany. Blifters may be applied 
at all times of the fever with great advantage. If the patient is delirious, he ought 
to be bliftered on the neck or head ; and it will be the fafeft courfe, while the infen- 
fibility continues, as foon as the eee occafioned by one blifter abates, to apply 
‘another to fome other part of the body, and by that.means keep upa continual fuc- 
ceffion of them till he be out of danger. A miliary eruption fometimes breaks out 
about the ninth or tenth day. As eruptions are often critical, great care fhould be 
taken not to retard Nature’s operation in this particular. The eruption ought nei- 
ther to bechecked by bleeding nor other evacuations, nor pufhed out by a hot 
regimen; but the patient fhould be fupported by gentle cordials,as wine-whey, {mall 
negus, fago-gruel with a Jittle wine in it, and, fuch like... He ought not to be kept 
too warm; yet akindly breathing {weat fhould by no, means be checked. In, def- 
‘perate cafes, where the hiccup and ftarting of the tendons have already come on, we 
‘have fometimes feen extraordinary effects from large doles of mulk. frequently 
‘repeated. Mutk is doubtlefs an antifpafmodic, and may be given to the quantity.of 
a feruple three or four times a-day, or oftener if neceflary. Sometimes it may,be 
‘proper to add to the musk a few grains of camphire, and falt of hartfhora, . as thele 
tend to promote peripiration and the difcharge of urine, Thus, fifteen grains of 
musk, with three grains of camphire, and fix grains of fale of harthorn, may. be 
n ade € into a bolus with a little fyrup, and given as above. If the fever fhould inter- — 
amit, which it frequently does toward the decline, or. if the patient” s ftrength fhould 
‘be wafted with colliquative f fw ats, ‘&e. i it will k negeffary ss give h him the Peruvian 
‘bark. alfa drachm, ora whole drachm if th ft 22 ) bear it, of the bark in 
fine powder, may be given f ‘four or five times “ day, in a 2 glatsof red port or claret. 
‘Should the bark in fubftance not fit eafy on the ftomach, an ounce of it in powder 
may be infufed i ina bottle of Lifbon or Rhenifh wine, for two | or three fs 1 He 
= wards i it may be firained, and a Bales pit t taken frequently. ee: 
OF THE: MALIGNANT, PUTRID, on SPOTTED, FEVER 
THIS fever i is -occafioned by i foul air, y a4 a number of people being con 
ae a narrow place, no not pr erly v ventilated ; from putrid animal and 
Auvia, Bcc. Hence it prevails in camps, jails, hofpitals, and infirmaries, efpec : 
Li where = 
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