SZ4r ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



are employed to heal ulcerated or eroded 

 membranes in other parts of the body ; 

 particular care being taken not to irri- 

 tate the tender eroded furface of the in- 

 teftines, by improper food, or flrong, or 

 irritating medicines. And the few whom 

 I have ken recover, after we had reafon, 

 from the fymptoms, to fufpedl that the 

 inteflines were in the ftate above defcri- 

 bed, have gradually crept out of the dif- 

 order, by living on the mildeft eafieft 

 digerted food ; by avoiding every 

 fort of irregularity ; by the ufe of the 

 bark, and mild aftringents ; and by the 

 occafional ufe of mild laxative medicines, 

 or foft laxative clyfters j and of mild a- 

 nodyne and opiate remedies, to allay ac- 

 cidental fpafms and pain, when there was 

 no' fever, nor any danger of coftivenefs, " 



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