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cipally on cleanfing the primae *vlae : And, 

 therefore, after blooding fuch patients, if 

 they are plethoric, I give them a vomit of 

 (emetic wine or tartar ; which muft be a 

 dofe double to what would vomit another 

 perfon ; otherways it would have no ef- 

 fe<fl, efpecially when the difeafe is violent 

 or has continued long. My father, who 

 has had long pradlice with fuch patients 

 under the mill-reek, has always finely 

 powdered vicriim antimoniireddj ; of which 

 he gives half a drachm for a dofe ; and, 

 during its operation, warm water is to be 

 drunk plentifully. If the vomit ope- 

 rates well, and purges brifkly too, the 

 patient is in a fair way of recovering ; 

 which a fecond, but a milder dofe of 

 ipecacuanha with fome icirtar emeric mix- 

 ed, often makes compleat: But, if the 

 emetic neither vomits nor purges, the pa- 

 tient is generally worfe for it ; and a 

 flronger dofe fhould be given foon. 

 If it vomits, but does not purge, a ca- 

 thartic of the antimonial kind, or of jal- 



lap and mercury, in greater than ordina- 

 ry 



