f a j 
To reftore oxygen to the blood, and invigorate the 
whole fyftem, vital air, properly modified, may be 
inhaled into the lungs. Where this cannot be had, 
as hitrous acid contains it in a loofe ftate, and readily 
detached, the acid may be diluted with a portion of 
water and adminiftered as above-mentioned. 
Should a confiderable truce to the violent fymp- 
toms be once happily obtained, the return of pafox- 
yfm might poflibly be obviated, by a liberal ufe of Pe- 
ruvian bark with fteel, and by repeated oxygenation. 
To conclude, fhould the prefent hints tend, in any 
degree, to elucidate the real nature of this. formi- 
dable malady, or lead to a more fuccefsful treatment, 
I fhall think the labour well beftowed: Various ex- 
periments are {till wanting,. aid the fubje& would 
require a more ample difcuffion; but haying already 
over-{tepped my intended bounds, I muft here beg 
leave to drop the pen. . } 
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