sppeed Fresh meat quickly e bs putrefa i : = , % 
anecdote exemplifies it : absorbs | ction, — 
The garrison of Gib ltar, when they fear the plague, (w rie 
place is very subject to,) elevate a piece of fresh meat in the air at 
night ; and if they find it sweet and untainted in the morning, they _ 
conclude there is not much danger; but if it has become putrid, 
they expect the plague, ; . ; ; 
- Onions, garlics, bruised potatoes freshly dug out of the earth and 
roasted without washing, till they can be mashed, and applied as 
poultices to the soles of the feet, or any part of the body, are also very 
efficacious in extracting the morbific matter, and relieving the sys- 
tem. Even fresh earth, alone, warmed and applied over the body, — 
is considered almost a certain cure for the yellow fever, in the Spa- 
nish West Indies. There, when a person is attacked with it, they dig 
a hole in the earth large enough to receive his whole body, and after 
warming it a little, place the patient in it, completely burying all ex~ 
cept his face, and there let him remain till the fever and taint is ex- 
tracted, and relief obtained. 
If there be a violent looseness, nothing can be more beneficial than 
plenty of acids, made somewhat cordial, and such things as promote 
a gentle perspiration, thereby turning the humors outwardly. 
If the patient be troubled with vomiting, or nausea, after the 
per evacuations have been made from the stomach, a drachm.o 
ash, or sal eratus, dissolved in an ounce and a half of fresh 
juice, and made into a draught, with an ounce of simple cinna 
‘water, and a bit of sugar, may be given and repeated as often as it is _ 
- If swellings of the glands appear, their suppuration is to. be ; 
moted by the application of ripening poultices ; and as soon as there — 
is any appearance of matter in them, they ought to be laid open and ~ 
the poultices continued. Large ulcerous sores sometimes break out ~# 
in various parts of the body, in the decline of the fever, of a livid, 
gangrenous appearance, and a most putrid smell. These gradually — 
heal, upon the application of cleansing poultices, as charcoal“and — 
yeast, and the use of acids, toniés, and cordials, internally. In ty- 
phus, yeast may be given internally, which calms and relieves th 
stomach greatly. ace eA te 
Cleanliness, in the strictest sense of the word, 
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is to be most care- — 
fully attended to; therefore, the bed and body linen should be fre- 
quently changed, and the excrements instantaneously removed. The - 
atient should be covered lightly with bed clothes, his apartment 
kept cool and properly ventilated, and acids and aromatics frequent- 
ly sprinkled about. - aiiaea eae 
When a putrid fever seizes any person in a family, the greatest — 
‘attention is necessary-to prevent the disease from spreading. a i oe 
sick ought to be placed ina large apartment, as remote fromthe rest 
of the family as possible, and those in health ought to avoid all un- 
- mecessary communication with him. Any one who is apprehensive 
laving caught the infection, ought immediately to take an 
‘it off with camomile tea, drank plentifully. 
who wait upon the sick in putrid fever, as_well 
always to have a piece of sponge, or a har 
