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BOTANIC PIIYSICIAN. 
vect calculated to counteract the tendency to 
ice the most dangerous kind. of dysentery 
ay be used for common drink. The dysentery has often 
ured 4y. this alone. It may also be used asa clyster. @ Sa 
Mepicine.—Begin the cure by cleansing the first passages. For 
this purpose an emetic must be: given, a8 of blood root, ipecac, or 
Jobelia, and worked off with weak camomile tea. The day after the — 
vomit, a small dose of rhubarb, or castor oil, may be given, or suffi-’ 
_ cient to procure an evacuation. ‘These may 
or pepper- 
t-water, with a little sugar, may be drank freely for common 
arink, a8 much as the stomach will bear. This destroys the canker, 
and 1s ver ing, while at the same time it affords nourishment ; 
_ and may be depended on with “eertainty.. he same may also be 
used for clysters. : 
If astringents are deemed necessary, 
___ fon broth, with thirty or'forty drops of laudanum in it, may be admi= 
___ histered three or four times a day, if necessary. If this should not 
‘prove sufficiently astringent, a decoction of crane’s-bill or sweet bu- 
gle, &c., may be added... The bowels should not be suffered to re~ 
_ main closed, however, more than ten or twelve hours at a time, till 
. the danger is removed. tits Sais hanes 
the obstinacy of the caseshould render it necessary, astringents 
given sparingly by the mouth, asthe sweet bugle, lau- 
, crane’s-bill, &¢. Port wine, properly diluted wi 
___4+he buds of bireh, powdered, and mixed up with a conser 
_ roses, Is a medicine that will seldom disappoint expectation. 
zard skins of fowls, dried and pulverized, and taken two 
_ times aday, as much as will lay on a shilling piece, is no d 
a clyster of starch, or fat mut- 
. 
__ «In the advanced and chronic state of the disease, at which time 
idity of the stomach is apt to prevail, alkalies and absorbents, as— 
zt sal wratus and rhubarb, or even lime-water, be-_ 
essary. These may be joined with opiates. ae 
who have been cured of. this disease are very liable to@ 
pse ; to prevent which, great cireumspection with respect to diet, 
_ Ismecessary. He should -live principally on milk and yegetabl 
' foratime. Gentle exercise on horseback or in a earrjage, is of g 
vice. He may likewise-use: bitters infused in wine or b au 
