AND FAMILY DISPENSATORY, 
white-wine vinegar, of each one ounce ; camphire half a fcruple; white fugar, two 
ounces; liquid laudanum, forty drops: mix them well, for a fingle draught: alfo 
take {pring-water, twelve ounces ; lemon-juice and white-wine vinegar, of each as 
ounce and an half; white fugar, a fufficient quantity to make it palatable: mix them 
well, and let her ufe it for common drink. Take milk, half a pint; tincture of | 
afafoetida, two ounces; camphire, fugar of lead, and troches of myrrh, of each two 
drachms : mix them, and inje¢t cold into the privities, with a proper inftrument, 
If thefe fail of fuccefs, repeat the opiate; and, if the fit {till increafe, let the patient 
be had to the cold bath. Bliftering alfo has been found ferviceable in fome women. 
A whey diet, together with the ufe of the cold-bath continued for a month or two, 
are excellent ; and during all this time, clyfters and injections may be ufed between 
whiles, made according to the form above, without any mixture of more ftimulating 
_ ingredients. When this difeafe degenerates into a madnefs, it muft be treated ac- 
cordingly, and the beft advice fhould be immediately had; for, if it remains long 
in a confirmed ftate, it will feldom admit of a cure. Hi | 
Or CONCEPTION, or PREGNANCY. 
- WHEN almighty God created the world, he fo ordered and difpofed of the ma~ 
teries mundi, that every thing produced from it fhould continue fo long as the world 
fhould ftand. Not that the fame individual fpecies fhould always remain; for they 
: were in procefs of time to perifh, decay, and return to the earth from whence they 
came; but that every like fhould produce its like, every fpecies produce its own 
_ kind, to prevent a final deftruétion of the fpecies, or the neceflity of a new creation. 
For which end he laid down certain regulations, by which each fpecies was to be 
propagated, preferved, and fupported, till, in order and courfe of time, they were to 
be removed hence : for without that, thofe very beings, which were created at firtt, 
mutt have continued to a final diffolution of all things; which almighty God, of his 
infinite wifdom, did not think fit. But, that he might ftill the more manifett his 
omnipotence, he fet all the engines of his providence to work, by te om __ 
was to produce another, by means of certains laws or rules, ese Pro 
pagation, maintenance, and fupport, of all created beings. This his are 
dence is called nature, and thefe regulations are called the laws of nature, by aa 
it ever operates in its ordinary courfe, producing conception and a — 
_ things, as it were, from the beginning. : ane | 
- | The procefs of generation of the human Ipecies, ; # tl 
it, is as follows : de penis being erected —— on of blood; the pasa 8 
fame time tumefied ; and the nervous papillae int by which dhe feed is prefied : 
excited, in coition; an ejaculatory sia follows, : eur 
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