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other wild animals, roafted ; pungent and aromatic vegetables, as garlic, muftard, 
onions, crefies, horfe-raddifh, rocambole, fhalot, &c. He may alfo.eat fea-bifcuit 
dipt in wine or alittle brandy. -This isnot only nourifhing, but tends to quench 
thirft. Some have been attually cured of a dropfy by a total abftinence from all 
liquids, and living entirely upon fuch things as are mentioned above. If the pa- 
tient muft have drink, the Spa-water, or Rhenifh wine, with diuretic medicines 
_infafed in it, are the beft. Exercife is of the greateft importance in a dropfy. If 
the patient be able to walk, dig, or the like, he ought to continue. thefe exercifes as 
jong as he can. If he is not able to walk or labour, he mutt ride on horfeback, or 
in a Carriage, and the more violent the motion fo much the better, provided he can 
bear it. If the difeafe has come on fuddenly, it may generally be remoyed by 
ftrong vomits, brifk purges, and fach medicines as promote adifc harge by fweat and 
urine. For an adult, half adrachm of ipecacuanha in powder, and half an ounce 
of oxymel of fquills, will be a. proper vomit. This may be repeated as often as is 
found neceflary, three.or four days intervening between the dofes. The patient 
mutt not drink much.after taking the vomit, otherwife he deftroys its effects. A 
cup or.two of camomile-tea will be fufficient to work it off. Betwixt each vomit, 
on one of the intermediate days, the patient may take the following purge: Jalap © 
in powder half a drachm, cream of tartar two drachms, calomel fix grains, Thefe 
may be made into a bolus witha little fyrup of pale rofes, and taken early in the 
morning. Thelefs the patient drinks after it the better. If he be much griped, 
he may take now and then a cup of chicken-broth. The patient may likewife take 
every night at bed-time the following bolus: To four or five grains of camphor add 
one grainof opium, and as much fyrup of orange-peel as is fufficient to make them 
into a bolus, This will generally promote a gentle fweat, which fhould be en- 
couraged by drinking now.and then a {mall cup of white wine whey, with a tea- 
fpoonful of the {piritsof harthhorn init. A tea-cupful of the following diuretic 
infufion may likewife be takenevery four or five hoursthrough the day: Take j juni- 
per berries, mutftard feed, and horfe-radifh, of each half an ounce, afhes of broom 
half a pound ; ; infufe them in a quart of Rhenifh wine or {trong ale for a few days, 
7 ds ftrain off the liquor. Such as cannot take this infufion, may ufe the 
3 espa be ventured upon. In this cafe, the fafer courfe is to 
palliate the fymptoms by the ufe of fuch medicines as promote the fecretions, and to 
7 support the patient’s fragt by warm and nourifhing cordials, The fecretion of 
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