368. ESSAYS and OBSERVATIONS 



the ilifeafe, the mouth, tonojue, fauces, 

 and alimenury canal are often affected 

 •with a bad fort of aphthae ; and, as a hic- 

 cup may come on, and the patient die, 

 although the purging has been confide- 

 rably lefs for feveral days, I imagined 

 that the bark might, in fuch cafes, be 

 ufed with advantage ; and, upon trial, 

 I had the fatisfadion to find, that I had 

 not been mirtaken in my conjedlure. 



After bleeding once, or oftener, as 

 the circumftances of the patient may re- 

 quire, vomiting once and again with 

 ipecacuanha, and giving feveral dofes 

 of rhubarb, either alone, or w^ith equal 

 parts of the con fed lo japonica of the E- 

 dinburgh difpenfatory, and fome drops 

 of laudanum, I ordered the following de- 

 coction : 



^ Cort. perwuian- pulverat,li. Coqueex.aqu^ 

 Jontanae hh- iv. ad lib. i. Siibftdat pauiw 



lum, dein effundatiir decoBum^ Cui adds 



confcci- japon» ad 5ii. vel ^f^. 



Of this the patient takes two table 

 fpoohfuls fix times, or three fpoonfuls 



four 



