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water or {mall wine, The water-trefoil is likewife of great ufe in this complaint 
it may be infufed in wine or ale, or drunk in form of tea. The ground-ivy, camo: 
mile, and feveral other bitters, are alfo beneficial, and may be’ ufed in the fame mane 3 
ner. No benefit however is to be expected from thefe, unlefs they be taken for a 
confiderable time. Excellent medicines are often defpifed in this difeafe, becaufe 
they donot perform an immediate’ cure; whereas nothing would be more certain 
than their effect, were they duly perfifted in. Want of perfeverance in the ufe of 
medicines is one reafon why chronic difeafes are fo feldom cured. Cold bathing, 
efpecially in falt water, soften cures the rheumatifm. We would alfo recommend 
riding on horfeback, and wearing flannel next the fkin. flues are likewile very 
proper, efpecially in chronic cafes. If the pain affects the fhoulders,'an iffee may 
-be made in the arms but, if it affects the loins, it fhould be ar in the = igi A 
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OF THE Stuur Vy 
THE Genre is.occafioned by cold moift air; by the long ufe of falted or fmoke- 
dried provifions, or any kind of food that is hatd of digeftion, and affords little 
nourifament. It may alfo proceed from the fuppreffion of cuftomary evacuations ; 
as the menfts, the hemorrhoidal flux, &c. It is fometimes owing to an heredicary 
faint in. which cafe.a very finall caufe will excite the latent diforder. Grief, fear, 
and other deprefiing paffions, have a great tendency both to excite and aggravate 
this difeafe. The fame obfervation holds with regard to ‘negle&t “of ‘cleanlinefs’, 
‘bad clothing, the want of proper exercife, confined air, unwholefome food, or any 
difeafe which greatly weakens the body ot vitiates the humours. * 
- CURE.---There is no way of curing this difeafe fo effeCtually,-as by purfuing’ a 
plan diretly oppofite to that which brings it on. It proceeds from a vitiated ftate 
of the humours, occafioned by errors-in diet, air, or exercife; and this cannot be 
_ femoved but by a proper. attention to thefe important articles. When the feurvy — 
| ‘Bas been brought on by a long ufe of falted provifions, the proper medicine is a diet 
 Confifting chiefly of frefh vegetables ; as oranges, apples, lemons, limes, tamarinds, 
rater-crefles, fourvy-grafs, brook- lime, &c. The ufe of thefe, with milk, pot- 
w bread, and frefh beer or cyder, will feldom fail to remove a feurvy of 
‘taken before it be too faradvanced ; but, to have this effect, they mutt 
be peril or a confiderable time. I have often feen very extraordinary effects 
in the land-fearvy from a milk diet. This preparation of nature is a mixture of 
imal and vegetable properties, which, of all others, is the moft fit for reftoring a 
titution, and removing that particular acrimony of the humours which — 
feems to conde abit effeace of the feurvy and many other difeafes. But 
a defpife this —— becaufe it is cheap, ae. 
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