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the remedies of the former were first pgccrered 
and agi Spyies by self-taught men. Howeve 
as the case now stands, the faculty are adogting 
the boikine practice in a measure, by using rather 
privately to be sure, lobelias cayenne, 
some few of them in fact, have 
old practice altogether, and adopted the ne w, as 
the only safe saat This they must all 
eventually do, if they wish to administer to the 
the faculty will have to submit to it, or sep a 
of the ranks entirely, ere long. De epend up- 
on it. 
Those who wish to be steamed at their houses, 
and do not own a proper machine for the pur-_ 
pose, may go esa te | to the following direc- 
tions. Tees nes of variou 8 sizes, heat them 
red hot, take the s 
or kettle of ee wat 
immersed. The acne must be aisied and 
enclosed with a blanket, so as to be shielded is 
ach. In about fifteen or twenty m 
tient must be sorbed all over with “eid water or 
spirit, and be p in bed, or dressed, as circum- 
stance ae pettaie: "Belore caking the bath, a t 
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