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to keep the patient quiet during the little 

 time he has to live. 



Sometimes it happens, that, after 

 the complaints of ftomaeh and gats are 

 gone, a prickling pain and feeblenefs re" 

 main in the legs, much like to a rheu- 

 matifm ; for which, fridlion, with a coarfe 

 cloth or flefh-brufh, is necefTary. If that 

 fails, ung' nervinum with ol. 'terebinth, mix- 

 ed, is to be rubbed on every night, be- 

 fore the fire ; after which, the member 



is to be wrapped in fl.-innel. If thefe 



pains are violent, or the feeblenefs re- 

 fembles palfy, blifters ought to be applied 

 to the fkin under which the large nerves 

 are fituated, and the medicines proper in 

 a paliy are to be given. 



Some arc fo wafted before the cure is 

 com pleated, that they remain afterwards 

 emaciated, weak, and as if they were hec- 

 tic, with a giddinels in their head : And 

 fometimes they chat to no purpole, or 

 feem hypochondriac. In this condition, 

 the patient ihould go to the country, to 

 ride onhorfe-back lome miles every day; 



and^ 



