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‘entirely ceafed.° The operation muft be performed in’a 
very clofe apartment; and at every feafon of the year there 
mutt be kept’in ‘it ‘a fire-pan, over which fugar and juniper 
muft be thrown, from time to time, that the vapour which 
thence arifes may promote the perfpiration. The whole- 
body of the patient, the eyes alone excepted, muft in this 
manner be anointed, or rather rubbed over with the greateft 
care. 
In the fpace of a.year I remarked that this operation, if 
not employed too late, was attended with the moft -wonder- 
ful effeét. If it be delayed till the nervous fyftem of the 
patient is attacked by the difeafe and the blood corrupted, 
after which a decompofition of it follows, the remedy is of 
no avail, and the patient mutft fall a viddiim. The operation, 
therefore, muft be performed as foon as the fmalleft fymptom 
of infeétion is remarked. In cafes where perfpiration was 
flow, I have endeavoured to promote it by making the patient 
drink tea of elder flowers without fugar, from which I have 
feen the happiett effects. 
‘To the above rules Count von Berchtold adds the fol- 
lowing remarks by way of illuftration: 1. The operation of 
rubbing in the oil muft be performed by means of a fponge, 
and fo fpceedily as not to aft more than about three minutes. 
2. The interval between the firft and the fecond rubbing, if 
a fecond be neceffary, muft be determined by circumftances, 
as the fecond muft not be performed till the firft perfpiration 
is over, and this will depend on the conftitution of the pa- 
tient. If any fweat remains upon the fkin, it muft be wiped 
off with a warm cloth before the fecond rubbing takes place. 
This ftrong fri€tion with oil may be continued, for feveral 
days fucceffively, until a favourable change is remarked in 
the difeafe ; after which the rubbing may be performed in a 
more gentle manner. The quantity of oil requifite each 
time cannot be determined with accuracy; but, in gencral, 
a pound may be fufficient. The pureft and frefheft oil 1s the 
beft for this operation: it muft not be hot, but only luke- 
' warm, 
