4 CULPEPER?s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
is of fomeule... Itfhhouldbealmoft conftantly kept inthemouth, and fwallowed down 
leifurely.: 1t may likewife be mixed in the patient’s drink, or taken any other way, 
When. it cannot be obtained, the jelly of red currants, or of mulberries, may be 
ufed in its ftead. Gargles are alfo very beneficial: they may be made of. fage-tea, 
with alittle vinegar and honey; and may be ufed three or four times a-day ; and, 
if the patient be troubled with tough vifcid phlegm, the gargle may be rendered 
more fharp and cleanfing by adding to it a teafpoon-full of {pirit of fal ammoniac. 
There is no difeafe wherein the benefit of bathing the feet and legs in lukewarm 
water is more apparent: that practice ought therefore never to be neglected, If 
the inflammation be violent, it wil) be proper, as foon as the fymptoms appear, to 
bleed in the arm, or rather in the jugular vein, and to repeat the operation if cir- 
cumftances require. The body thould likewife be kept gently open. This may 
‘be done by giving the patient for hisordinary drink a deco¢tion of figs and tamarinds,.- 
or fmall dofes of rhubarb and nitre. Good effects are often produced from a bit of 
fal prunel, or purified-nitre, held in the mouth, and fwallowed down as it melts. 
‘This promotes the difcharge of faliva, by which means it anfwers the end of a gar- 
sk while at the fame time it abates the fever, by promoting the difcharge of urine, 
. Bliftering upon the neck or behind the ears, in violent inflammations of the 
~ ye is very beneficial ; and in bad cafes it will be neceflary to laya bliftering- 
plafter quite acrofs the throat, fo as to reach from ear to ear. After the platters 
are taken off, the parts ought to be kept running by the application of iffue oint- 
‘ment, till the inflammation is gone; otherwife, upon their drying up, the patient 
‘will be in danger of a relapfe, When a difficulty of {wallowing is ‘not attended 
‘with an acute pain or inflammation, it only requires that the part be kept warm, 
_ and the throat frequently gargled with fomething that may gently ftimulate_the 
Glands, as a decoétion of figs with vinegar and honey; to which may be adds -da 
dittle muftard, or a fmall quantity of fpirits. But this gargle. is never.to, be uled 
where “there are figns of an inflammation. Thofe who are fubject to-inflammations 
of th throat, i in-orderto avoid that difeafe, ought to live temperate. Such as.do 
tichu fe to obferve thisrule muft have frequent recourfe to purging and other 
racuations, ait eee the foie fips humours. ‘They ought likewife to be- 
2 I * ANT on PUTRID ULCEROUS SORE THROAT. 
THIS i Is evidently a Son teeions diftemper, and is generally communicated by in- 
- fection. Whole families, and even entire villages, often receive the infection from 
one perfon, ~ a mr pecsinck putrid or malignane fevers may a 
