<o6 Br. Peruvai on ibe Effetls of Famine, iSc. 



extreme weaknefs and emaciation, gradually in- 

 duced j 'becaufe the lymphatics muft partake of 

 the general want of tone and energy. And noc- 

 -withftanding the falutary effedts of wine, in the 

 cafe of the jockey, who, it is likely, had been 

 reduced by fweating as well as by abftinence, 

 fuch a ftimulant might prove dangerous, and 

 even fatal to one in the fituation of Travis. I 

 Ihould, therefore, advife the exhibition of cor- 

 dials in very fmall dofes, and, at firft, confider- 

 ably diluted. Slender wine whey will perhaps 

 beft anfwer this purpofe ; and afford, at the fame 

 time, an eafy and pleafant nouriftiment. When 

 the ftomach has been a little ftrengthened, an 

 eg2 may be mixed with the whey, qr admini- 

 stered under fome other agreeable form. The 

 yolk of one was, to Cornaro, fufficient for a 

 meal. And the narrative of this noble Venetian, 

 in whom a fever was excited by the addition of 

 only two ounces of food to his daily allowance, 

 (hews, that the return to a full diet fhould be 

 conduced with great caution, and by very flov7 

 gradations. 



Though, I fear, my commentary has been 

 already extended to an undue length, yet I can- 

 not clofe it, without foliciting the attention of 

 the Society, to one additional circumftance, in 

 the cafe of Travis, peculiarly interefting in its 

 ponfequenctrs ; viz. the eafe with which he 

 breathed, for a corifiderable fpacc of time, air 



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