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The method of cure differs nothing 

 from that commonly pradlifeJ in vene- 

 real cafes. Mercury, given a longer or 

 fhorter time, feldom fails to remove the 

 diftemper. High falivation is not need- 

 ful. Large dofes of this remedy, and 

 much fpitting, unnecefFarily fatigue and 

 exhauft the patient. If the mouth is fore 

 and watery, and kept at this pitch a 

 proper time, a proper quantity of the 

 mercury being thrown in, it is fufficient. 

 Under fuch a management of it, the fick 

 may live in a cooler way j becaufe much 

 warmth is always hurtful. 



In higher degrees of the diftemper, in- 

 deed, the remedy muft be given in great- 

 er quantity, or continued longer, to have 

 ;an adequate efie<3:, that is, to produce a 

 free falivation j and, even after that, fome 

 fymptoms may remain. 



These are to be carried off. by time, 



lin the ufe of the ^chiopic pill, farfapa- 



Irilla, and the like. Such as cannot afford 



the farfaparilla, may vSe a decoClion of 



^he woods, or that of bardana; which 



Jafl is very fit to be drank during the 



courfe 



