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BOTANIC PHYSICIAN. . 
ischarge of blood from the nose, looseness, scabby eruptions, the 
ceding piles, or the menses, sometimes carry off this disease. 
_ Tur Core.—The diet should consist chiefly of vegetables, of a a 
cooling and opening quality. All kinds of fruits that are wholesome _ 
_ may be eaten with advantage. The most proper drink is water, 
whey, or very small beer. If honey agrees with the patient, it may 
be eaten freely, or his drink may be sweetened with it. Infusions of. 
balm leaves, pennyroyal, the roots of valerian, may be drank freely, 
_ either by themselves or sweetened with honey, asthe patient shall . 
_ The patient ought to take as much exercise in the open air as he 
can bear. This helps to dissolve the viscid humors, it removes ob- _ 
‘Structions, promotes perspiration and all the other secretions. Every. ~ 
__ kind of madness is attended with a diminished perspiration ; all 
~~ means ought therefore to be used to promote that necessary and salu- 
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tary discharge. Nothing can have a more direct tendency to in- — 
_ €rease the disease than confining the patient to a close apartment. 
Were he forced to ride or walk a certain number of miles every day 
it would tend greatly to alleviate his disorder; but it would havea 
_ still better effect if he were obliged to labor on a piece of ground. — 
By digging, hoeing, planting, sowing, &c., both the body and mind 
would be exercised. A long journey, especially towards a warmer — 
climate, and with agreeable companions, has often very happy effects. 
A plan of this kind, with a strict attention to diet, is a much more 
rational method of cure, than confining the patient within doors and 
- plying him with medicines. . re os" 
ought to be soothed and diverted with a variety of amuse 
entertaining stories, pastimes, music, &c, Nothing can remove 
eases of the mind so effectually 
the most efficacious of which is 1 
applied to the head has a very 
excited. The vomits must 
increased by the use of foxglove, balsam of life, wil ‘turnip, 
root, &c. 3 oe 
As it is very dfficult to induce patients in this disease t 
_ dicines, outward applications may sometimes be of benefit 
