which may be washed down with a glass of peppermint or cinnamou 
water; and to which way be added, strong wines and generou 
cordials. - Warm negus, or wine whey, will likewise be necessary 
to support the patient’s spirits, and promote the perspiration, The 
fever s will help to equalize the circulation. ‘The patient's 
legs should be bathed in warm water, and afterwards rubbed with 
flannel cloths, or wrapped in warm blankets, and warm bricks applied 
te the soles of the feet. . ‘ jie ie 
The application of a blister to the stomach will sometimes put a _ 
stap to the vomiting: 43 3 
When the violence of the disease is over, to prevent a relapse, it 
will be necessary {or some time, to continue the use of small doses —__ 
of Jaudanum. ‘Ten or twelve drops may be taken in a glass of wine, 
twice a day for eight or ten days, the patient’s food ought to be nou- 
rishing, but taken in small quantities, and he should use moderate 
exercise. As the stomach and intestines are generally much weak- 
ened, an infusion of colombo root, or other bitters, in wine, sharpen- 
ed with elixir vitriol, and mint water, may be drunk for some time. 
No physician ought to despair of relieving the patient, even in the 
most desperate circumstances. The treatment here laid down, and 
parti y the opiates, if judiciously administered and duly persist- 
éd.in, will often cure the most obstinate. I would therefore advise, _ 
in such cases, a full reliance on its final efficacy, rather than atash 
impatience to try other medicines, far more uncertain, and perhaps 
._. DIARRHG!A OR LOOSENEss. 
Diarrhea, in many cases, is not tobe considered as a disease, but 
rather as a salutary evacuation. It ought therefore, neyer to be 
stopped; unless when it continues too long, or evidently weakens the _ 
patient. As this, however, sometimes happens, we shall point out _ 
the most common causes of a looseness, with the proper method of 
treatment: : mA i 
When a looseness is caused by catching cold, or an ¢ 
tor teh turning the eH in ae - bowels, | 
ought to keep warm, drink freely of w: iluting liquors, mints, — 
&c.; bathe his feet and legs fears in lukewarm water, wear 
I next his skin, and take every other method to restore the _ 
perspiration to the surface. 4 va 
_ in a looseness which proceeds from excess or repletion, an eme= 
tic is the proper medicine; for if the fouatain, (the stemach,)is 
emptied, the stream must dry up, of course. Emelics not only 
cleanse the stomach, but promote all the secretions. A day ortwo. 
fter the emetic, rhubarb may be taken, and vepeated two or three _ 
nes if the looseness continues, . The patient ought to live on light 
it with the 
