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these affect children, they constitute a sudden and 
effectual remedy against collapse. ‘They assuage 
the rending pains of colic, and of the stomach, from 
any cause which may not have induced inflamma- 
tion, both safely and with promptness. They check 
undue vomiting, whether spontaneous or from the 
 over-action of an emetic medicine. Those of them 
_ which are used as condiments, form an essential 
part of the restorative diets and stimulating bev- 
crages of convalescents; and, in a state of debil- 
ity canes the ¢ igest ve Svehd ers to movies farin- 
foe If sie Rae P ode iiey oe » health- 
ful to all persons of delicate habit, and if a at any 
period some excess may, without injury, be 
committed in their dietetic use, it will be found 
that during the debilitating effects of excessive 
heat insummer, in warm climates, this pigs is 
most easily borne. j cog aes eine. esse 
thermometer even in our own climate, 
opinion, we resort too spayin: ee on 
4 ges, to psa ti “9 . And this 
90, FL thi ane “unwarrantable: prejudice 
ag fiat them, originating in a false idea of their 
properties and effects. Ihave done much good 
in the treatment of intermittents, by the liberal em-_ 
ployment of dictetic. condiments, as cayenne at 
pers pimento, nutmeg: and mace. of 
F _ Externally applied, the ‘aromatic éssential oils g 
- are cons ably acrid and inflaming. They stim- 
~ulat the skin excessively, and the oil of cloves 
even acts as an escarotic. The oil of origanum 
(oil of horsemint.) is exceedingly. powerful as 
rubefacient, and has been bene ly mpeliol to 
__. stimulate the rigidity of articular chronic rheuma- 
tis, and restoring the joints to their freedom. Ex- 
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