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"press and strain, and add to it the lime water, and bottle it for-use. 
Dose, a wine glass three times a day. This is also good in coughs, 
consumptions, hysterics, cramps, spasms, &c. Z oe 
3 “ _ APOPLEXY. 
An apoplexy is a sudden abolition of the external and internal 
_ senses, and of all voluntary motion, with sometimes a full pulse and 
large respiration. ‘Though. this disease proves often fatal; yet it may- 
sometinres be removed by proper care. It chiefly attacks sedentary 
persons of a gross habit, who use rich and plentiful diet, and indulge 
in strong liquors. People in the decline of life are most subject to 
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Causes. —The immediate cause of an apoplexy, is a compression — 
_Of the brain, occasioned by an excess of blood, or a collection of wa- 
tery humors. The former is called asanguine, and the latter a se- 
rous apoplexy, It may be occasioned by any thing that increases 
the circulation towards the brain, or. prevents the return of the blood 
from the head : as intense study, violent passions, wearing any thing 
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_ Symproms.—The usual forerunners of an apoplexy are, giddiness, 
pain, and swimming of the head ; loss of memory, drowsiness, noise 
an the ears, night-mare, tears, and laborious breathing. These symp- 
toms denote an approaching fit, which should be averted, if possible, 
by bleeding, and opening medicines. ; 
In the sanguine apoplexy, if the patient does not die suddenly, the — 
fountenance appears florid, the face is swelled and puffed up, 4 = 
- the blood-vessels about the neck and temples are swollen; the pulse, @ 
_ beats strong; the eyes are prominent and fixed; snorings ; INvOr 
_duntary evacuation of the excrements, or urine, ime 
Proenostics.—W hen breathing totally ceases for some time it is 
always fatal, If the pulse is weak, respiration difficult, the patient = 
old, or has been seized before in the same manner, loud snoring, — 
cold sweats, frothing at the mouth, these are all symptoms of a fatal 
tendency. An apoplexy often terminates in a palsy. A strong pulse 
is a sign of recovery; if succeeding blood-letting, the patient will un- 
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n this species of apoplexy, every method must be taken to lessen” 
the force of the Ate towards the Clg The patient should 
be kept perfectly easy and cool; his head raised pretty high, and his 
