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CURE---The patient muft abftain from every thing of a heating nature. His 
food fhould confift chiefly of mild vegetables, weak broths, and gruels.. His drink 
may be barley-water, balm-tea, common whey, and fuch like. Bleeding, in a violent 
inflammation of the eyes, is always neceffary. . This fhould be performed as near 
the part affected as poffible. An adult may lofe ten or twelves ounces of blood from, 
the jugular vein, and the operation may be repeated according to the urgency of 
thefymptoms. If it fhould not be convenient to bleed in the neck, the fame quan- 
tity may be let from the arm, or any other part of the body. Leeches are often 
applied to the temples, or under the eyes, with good effect, The wounds mutt be 
fuffered to bleed for fome hours, and, if the bleeding {top foon, it may be promoted 
by the application of cloths dipt in warm water. In obftinate cafes, it will be ne- 
ceflary to repeat this-operation feveral times. Opening and diluting medicines are 
by no means to be neglected ; but, if the inflammation does not yield to thefe evacu- 
ations, blifters muft be applied to the temples, behind the ears, or upon the neck, 
and kept open for fome time. I have feldom known thefe, if long enough kept 
open, fail to remove the moft obftinate inflammation of the eyes; but, for chis pur- 
pofe, it is often neceffary to continue the difcharge for feveral weeks, Thofe who 
are liable to frequent returns of this difeafe, ought conftantly to have an iffue in one 
or both arms, or a feton cut betwixt the fhoulders. Bleeding, or purging, in. the 
{pring and autumn will be very beneficial to fuch perfons. Sho , 
Or tz QUINSEY, on INFLAMMATORY SORE THROAT. _ 
THIS difeafe is frequently attended with great danger. When the inflammation 
comes on, the parts appear red and {welled; the patient complains of pain in 
{wallowing ; his pulfe is quick and hard, with other fymptoms of a fever. If blood 
be let, it is generally covered with a tough coat of a whitifh colour, and the patient 
{pits a tough phlegm. As the {welling and inflammation encreafe, the breathing 
and {wallowing become more difficult; the pain affects the ears ; the eyes generally 
and the face wells. When the breathing is laborious, with ftraight- — 
-hefs of the breaft, and anxiety, the danger is great. “Though the pain in {wallowing 
be very great, yet, while the patient breathes eafy, there is not fo much danger. 
“An external {welling is no unfavourable fymptom ; but, if ic fuddenly falls, andthe. 
difeafe affects the breaft, the danger is very great. When a quinfey is the confe- 
quence of fome other difeafe, which has already weakened the patient, his fituation; 
is dangerous. A frothing at the mouth, and a fwelled tongue, a pale ghaftly coun-, 
tenance, and coldnefs of the extremities, are fatal fymptoms. 1 teeewaee 
CURE.---It is peculiarly necefflary that the neck be kept warm ; for which, ur 
pofe feveral folds of foft flannel may be wrapt round it. The jelly of black cur- : 
apts is a medicine very much in efteem for complaints of the throat ; and indeed it 
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