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the true crisis of the disease has made its appearance. 

 A serious attention must be paid to this symptom, both to 

 prevent it, and to remedy it, when they have been taken 

 unawares. It is announced by a weak and often con- 

 vulsive pulse. It is then time to apply blisters, made 

 out of fresh cantharide-flies reduced to a powder, on 

 the different places where they are commonly applied, 

 such as the legs, thighs, arms, back of the neck, fccc., 

 as the case requires. Cordials, proper to raise again 

 the tone of the nerves, and the organic action of the 

 bowels, will prove successful. 



The patients that have arrived at a convalescent state, 

 should observe the most strict diet; preferring, above all, 

 rice-porridge, and light meats. I seriously warn them, 

 that the slightest error may prove very prejudicial. 



As- for the precautions proper to escape, as much as 

 possible, these sad diseases, I advise the new comers to 

 abstain entirely from spirituous liquors and fruits of any 

 kind, to use moderate exercise, to avoid, above all 

 things, any connexion with women, to use cool drinks, 

 not to fatigue themselves, especially in the sun, the heat 

 of which is but too much felt in those climates. To 

 these advices I will add that of having blood let once 

 or twice on the first days after their arrival ; above all, 

 let them take care not to be oppressed by the fear of 

 the disease, which, perhaps, through this means, will 

 become a true one. If, by these precautions, they do not 

 always succeed to preserve themselves from the disease, 

 they may at least be sure that the attacks will be less 



