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dofe of the water, or rather fome little time 
before it; or three or four grains of the pil. 
Matthzi may be given at bed-time, and as 
much, if requifite, in the morning : it will 
be convenient likeways to warm the water. 
But it oftener occafions coftivenefs ; for which 
it will be proper, now and then, to give a 
little fal: Glaub. polychr. manna, or. cream of 
tartar; or, which perhaps is preferable to a- 
ny of them, the purging falt of Scarborough 
watery If, upon eatching cold, any fe- 
verifh fits fhould arife,; the ufe of the water 
muft be fufpended till thefe fymptoms are 
gone.. When the water does not pafs eafily, 
it will be proper to loofen the belly, or give 
diuretics; and fuch whofe ftrength will per- 
mit, and whofe veffels are full of blood and 
juices, fhould let blood. 
Tuere is no determining precifely how 
long it fhould be drunk; the advantage the 
patient reaps from it muft decide that: 
fome have ufed it only twelve days, others 
three weeks, others four, others fix, fome 
two months, and others many months ; and 
yet they have all been fo happy as to meet 
with a cure: fo that, in general, as long as 
there is any profpect of its working a cure, 
its 
