apply another to some other part of the body, and 
continual succession of them till he is out of danger. Blisterin 
ters not-only stimulate the solids to action, but likewise occ: Tr 
ontinual discharge, which may in some measure supply the want o 
critical evacuations, which seldom happen in this kind of fever. _ fe 
~ A miliary eruption sometimes breaks out about the ninth or tenth —— 
day. As eruptions are often critical, great care should be taken not 
to retard Nature’s operation in this particular. The eruption ought: 
not to be checked by any evacuation, nor pushed out by a hot regi- 
men; but the patient should be supported by gentle cordials, as be- _ 
fore mentioned. __ x, — 
This feyer is in part a disease of the nerves, or a laxity of the 
vous influence. Therefore, in desperate cases, nervines and anti- ; 
_ Spasmodics are highly useful. When hiccup and starting of the __ 
tendons have already come on, extraordinary effects may sometimes _ 
be produced from large doses of musk, camphor, valerian, lady-slip- 
per, saffron, castor, hartshorn, &c., frequently repeated. If the fever 
should happen to intermit, and the patient’s strength is much ex- 
hausted with clammy sweats, tonics, and the elixir vitriol may be _ 
used. Ifthe sweats are profuse, let warm napkins be frequently ap- 
plied to the neck, breast, and abdomen: for though gentle sw 
are ofservice, when they become profuse they only tend to the 
solution of the patient ina double sense. = Tf gee 
There is no fever that requires to be watched more attentively — 
than this. Ifthe actions of the system are not kept up by stimula-_ 
ting applications, and the patient’s strength supported ordial 
medicines and nourishing dict, be will sink under the diseas e; and 
it frequently happens that when the attendants think him better, he 
is actually dying. 
Mulied or boiled buttermilk, either by itself, or with wine in it, is 
a most excellent medicine in all fevers, and particularly in typhus 
and epidemics; and it is one too that is easily obtained, In ine Spi 
demic that raged through thé country in 1813-14, almost all who 
were attacked in the section of the country in which I lived, died; 
until the use of this invaluable remedy was discovered, when after — 
that, almost all that used it, were carried through safely. . 
man found himself attacked, he immediately placed himself quiet 
in bed, and drank large quantities of this boiled buttermilk, warm, 
till a—profuse perspiration was brought on; and when that was over, 
he would get up, in a measure well. oe 
And it isa singular coincidence, and one that gives me pleasure to. 
record, that during the same raging epidemic, in another section of 
the country, the inestimable rever powpers, which I have so highly 
recommended throughout this work, proved an absolute specific 
against its deadly ravages; for it is within my own personal knowledge, 
that a botanic physician in the state of Massachusetts, who knew th 
Virtues of this blessed root, and used it, out of oné hundred and ty= 
_ Rine patients in that fever, only lost one, and she was old and at the. 
: ime afflicted with a complication of other diseases, - And) 
edicine thus provgd a certain saviour to all who took it 
) were really attacked, and went throug! 
ling, &¢., perished’ © 
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