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oe BOTANIC PHYSICIAN. or 
_ A periodical looseness ought never to be stopped. It is. always 
an effort of nature to carry off some offending matter, which if re- 
tained within the body might have fatal effects. Children are very 
liable to this kind of looseness, especially while teething. It is, — 
-  hew ; So far from being hurtful to them, that such children gene- 
rally get their teeth with the least trouble. If these loose stools 
should at any time prove sour or griping, a tea spoonful of mag- 
nesia, with four or five grains of rhubarb may be given to the child 
in a little panada or other food ; or the chalk julep; either of these, 
if repeated three or four times, will generally correct the acidity, 
and carry off the griping stools. : Fas 
A diarrhoea, or looseness, which proceeds from violent passions 
or afflictions of the mind, must be treated with the greatest caution. 
__ Emetics and ‘purges are very improper in this case. Opiates, and 
_ other anti-spasmodie medicines are most proper. ‘T'en or twelve 
_ drops of num may be taken in a cup of valerian or pennyroyak 
ry eight or ten hours, till the symptoms abate. * 
/@ looseness proceeds from acrid or poisonous substances 
‘ito the stomach, the patient must drink large quantities of 
diluting liquors, with oil or fat broths to promote vomiting or pur- 
Afterwards, if there be reason to suspect that the bowels are 
inflamed, small doses of laudanum, and other means may be used 
to allay it. wes ae 
_ When the gout, repelled from the extremities, occasions a Joose~ 
ness, it ought to be promoted by gentle doses of rhubarb, or other 
mild purgative. The gouty matter should be driven back to the ex- 
tremities by saffron tea internally, and warm fomentations to th ; 
feet and legs. The perspiration ought at the same time to be pro- 
moted by warm diluting liquors, as wine whey, with spirits of harts- 
ad a few drops of laudarfam‘in it. BiG ze 
a looseness proceeds from worms, which may be known by 
ss of the stools, mixed with pieces of decayed worms, &e., 
} must be given which will kill and carry off these vermin, 
as snakehead, and such other as directed in the treatment of worms. 
_ Afterwards, limewater, or the sal eratus and rhubarb mixture, may 
be given, to strengthen the bowels, and prevent the new generation - 
_ In people whose'stomachs are weak, violent exercise, immediately : 
fier eating, will occasion a looseness. In this case strengthening” 
ledicines to brace the stomach and give it tone, are requisite. Such 
ought likewise take a glass or two of old red port, or good: 
“he | ing is no contempible remedy for a diarrhea pro 
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ceedi from a weak stomach : gizzard skins of fowls, dried and pul 
verized :—dose as much as will lay.upon a shilling piece two or three: 
_ From whatever cause a looseness proceeds, when it is found ne- 
cessary to check it, the diet ought to consist of rice boiled with mi 
and flavored with cinnamon ; mutton or lamb soup, rice, jelly; 
from lear veal or a sheep’s head, &¢. The patient may also 
occasionally thesize of a walnut of the clove tie 2g: r 
