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this that my opinion particularly coincides with that of 

 Mr. Poissonnier) ; experience, I say, has demonstrated 

 to us, that bleedings, too often repeated, are very perni- 

 cious, because they exhaust the strength of the patient, 

 and accelerate the dissolution of the blood, to which the 

 disease itself has but too great a tendency. 



The nauseas, and vomiting of bilious matter, would 

 seem also to indicate the use of emetics ; but experience 

 has shown, that they too often prove fatal, because, in the 

 early stage of that disease, vomiting is produced by the 

 eretism : the sweat itself, almost always of a cold kind 

 before the fourth day, being always symptomatic, the 

 sudorific, the cordial, and narcotic remedies must be en- 

 tirely avoided, however inclined we may be by the in- 

 dications to make use of them, before the term pointed 

 out by the fifth day. 



These, therefore, are the remedies which I propose, 

 and have made use of with sucpess. I hope they will 

 likewise prove successful in the hands of practitioners 

 that are able to judge of the violence of the attacks, and 

 pay a suitable regard to the age, strength, and constitution 

 of the patients. 



On the first or second day, they will take a little 

 blood from the patient, without minding the vomitings 

 and symptomatic sweats, which may be arrested, or 

 even disappear by those bleedings. The bilious lax 

 alone should prevent letting more blood, this lax being 

 always critical, even in its first stage. They will make 

 the patient drink plentifully of weak chicken broth, 



