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different occifions, tried many of theme* 

 dicines which he recommends, and have 

 often found them fuccefsful ; fometimes 

 they failed, efpecially when the fame pa- 

 tient, who had found reUef from them 

 at firft, was obliged to continue the ufe 

 of them for fome time. When that hap • 

 penedjl had recourfe to other medicines; 

 two of which only I fhall mention 

 at prefent, as I have fometimes found 

 them of great fervice when the ftomach 

 was chiefly affedled ; viz. common black 

 pepper, and the aether, or J piritiu aethers- 

 us of our difpenfatory. The pepper is 

 given in powder to the quantity of a 

 fcruple or half a drachm in a wafer; or a 

 leffer quantity of it is mixed with fome 

 chicken broth, or beef tea, which will 

 fometimes make them ftay on the fto' 

 mach, when every thing elfc is thrown 

 up. Of this aether, 1 ufed to give for a 

 dofe, one or two tea-fpoonfuls * in a lit- 

 VoL.lIL Lll tie 



* I mean, of that which is made in Edinburgh; 

 for there is a cheaper kind of it made in great quanti- 

 ties at Liverpool, and fold over the moft of Britain, 

 which is much weaker, and not near fo efFedual. 



