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may likewife impofe on the attendants, and make them think a vomit neceflaty; 
but that too is almoft certain death. Bleeding is abfolutely neceffary, and is almoft 
the only thing that can be depended on. When the difeafe proves obftinate, it will 
- often be proper to repeat this operation feveral times, nor muft the low ftate of the 
pulfe deter us from doing fo. The pulfe indeed generally rifes upon bleeding, and, 
as long as that is the cafe, the operation is fafe. Frequent fomentations with 
lukewarm water, or a decoction of emollient vegetables, as recommended in the 
Herbal, are likewife beneficial. Flannel cloths dipped in thefe muft be applied | 
to the region of the {tomach, and removed as they grow cool. In this, and a}! other 
inflammations of the bowels, an epifpaftic, or bliftering-plaifter, applied over the 
part affected, is one of the beft remedies known. The only internal medicines 
which can with fafety be recommended are mild clyfters. Thefe may be made of 
warm water, or thin water-gruel ; and, if the patient is coftive, a little {weet oil, 
honey, or manna, may be added. Clyfters anfwer the purpofe of an internal fo- 
mentation, while they keep the body open, and at the fame time nourifh the patient, 
. whois often, inthis difeafe, unabieto retain any food upon his ftomach. For thefe 
reafons they muft not be neglected, as the patient's life may depend on them: 
INFLAMMATION of tue INTESTINES, 
THIS is one of the moft painful and dangerous difeafes that mankind is lia- 
ble to. It generally proceeds from the fame caufes as the inflammation of the 
ftomach ; to which may be added coftivenefs, worms, eating unripe fruits, or great 
quantities of nuts, drinking hard windy malt liquors, as ftale bottled beer or ale, 
four wine, cyder, &c. The inflammation of the inteftines is denominated iliac 
paffion, enteritis, &c. according to the name of the parts affeéted. The treatment 
however is nearly the fame, whatever part of the inteftinal canal be the feat of the 
difeafe. The fymptoms are nearly the fame as in the foregoing difeafe; only the 
Pain, if poffible, i is more acute, and is fituated lower. The vomiting is likewife 
e viole: ometimes even theexcrements, together with the clyfters and 
8, ate difcharged by the mouth. While the pain fhifts, and the vomit- 
 only-returns at certain intervals, and while the clyfters pafs downwards, there 
iv gelled oii but, when the clyfters and fztces are vomited, and the patient is 
exceeding weak, with alow fluttering pulfe, a pale countenance, and a difagreeable 
or itinking breath, there is great reafon to fear that the confequences will prove fa- 
tal. Clammy fweats, black foetid ftools, with a fmall intermitting pulfe, and a 
total ceflation of | pass, are e figns of a mortification already begun, a and of approaching 
death. 
CURE..---Bleeding; in this as well as in fie snbvateiiateat oF the flomach, i. is of 
the greateft importance. It —— be pained, as foon as the fymptoms appear, 
and 
