AND FAMIBEIDESPENSARGAYUD 
conftitution or manner of living, have reafon to expect it, 
; ought likewife to be 
circumspect with regard to its firft approach. If the'difeafe; by wrong wee 
improper medicines, be diverted from i its proper courfe, the miferable patient has a 
chance to be ever after tormented with head: achs, coughs, pains of the ftomach and 
inteftines ; and to fall, at laft, a victim to. its attack ee fome of bed more no- 
ble DORs ry , 
Or THE RHEUMATISM.. 
‘THE, caufes of a. rheumatifin are frequently the fame as-thofe of an sa eliaabti 
fevers viz. an obftructed peripiration, the immoderate ufe of ftrong liquors, and 
the like. Sudden changes.of the weather, and all quick tranfitions from heat to 
cold, are very apt to occafion the rheumatifm. The acute rheumatifm commonly 
begins with wearinefs, thivering, a quick pulfe, reftleffnefs, thirft, and other fymp-. 
toms of fever. Afterwards the patient complains of flying pains, which are in: 
creafed by the leaft motion, Thefe at length fix in the joints, which are often af 
fected with. {welling and inflammation. . If blood be let in this difeafe, it has genes 
; rally the. fame appearance as.in the pleurify... In-this kind-of rheumatifn-the trean 
- ment of, the patient.is nearly the fame as in an.acute or inflammatory fever. If he 
be young and. ftrong, bleeding is. neceffary, which may be repeated according to.the 
exigencies of the cafe. The body ought likewife to be kept, open. by emollient 
clyfters, or cool opening liquors as decoctions of tamarinds, cream of tartar, 
whey, fenna tea, and the like. Warm bathing, after proper evacuations, has often 
an exceeding good effect.. The patient may either be put into a bath of warm wa 
ter, or have cloths. wrung out of it applied to the parts affected. Great care mutt be 
taken that he do not. catch cold after bathing. The chronic theumatifin i is feldom 
ied with any confiderable degree of fever, and is generally confined to fome 
particular part of the body, as the fhoulders, the back,. or the loins. There is 
feldom any inflammation or {welling in this cafe.. Perfons in the decline of, life are 
moft fabjet to the chronic rheumatifm. In fuch patients it often proves extremely. 
‘obftinate, and frequently. incurable... Though this difeafe may not feem to yield. 
to medicines for fome time, yet they ought to be perfifted in Perfons-who are fub- 
ject to frequent. returns of the rheumati{m, will often find their-account in ufing me 
_ dicines, whether they be immediately affeted with the difeafe ornot. The.chronia 
-rheumatifm is fimilar to the gout in this refpect,- that the moft proper time. far. ufing 
medicines to extirpate it, is when the: patient is moft free from the diforder,.. There 
are feveral of our plants pointed, out in the. Herbal which may. be ufed: with grea - 
advantage i in the rheumatifm, One of the beft is the. white muftard; a table- 
- fpoonful of the feed of this plant. may be taken twice or thrice a-day, in-aglals of 
water: 
errs Than 
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