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commonly at the approach of the dissolution of the 

 blood. 



The violence of the symptoms of the winter cholera- 

 morbus urges an early application of a remedy to it. A 

 faint and small pulse, the coldness of the extremities, give 

 cause to fear lest the patient should sink under it. It is 

 therefore necessary to repeat bleedings upon bleedings. 

 Then the fluids that had been turned out of their way, 

 resume their ordinary course, and the fever that occurs, 

 bears a known character. They administer the re- 

 medies which I have already proposed; besides the 

 bleedings, they advise the patient to take frequently 

 weak chicken broth and injections. They ought to re- 

 sort to laudanum, only in an extreme case, and never 

 then, without having previously given some light mino- 

 ratiss. 



6. The dysentery, more rare than the cholera-morbus 

 in winter diseases, and more common in those of the 

 summer, is a symptom, which, in both seasons, hap- 

 pens in the state of the disease. They ought to admi- 

 nister emollient injections, prepared with the decoction of 

 tripes and plantain. They will add to the decoctions the 

 buds of monbin, monbin arbor foliis fraxini, fructu luteo 

 raccmoso (Plum. gen. pag. 40). They will purge the 

 patient with tamarins, mirobolans, and senna in whey ; 

 adding the syrup of succory, compounded with rhubarb. 

 In case the symptoms should permit, they will have re- 

 sort to laudanum, to the cashoo, and to amber incor- 

 porated with the balm of Peru. During the conva- 

 lescence of this disease, as well of the pleurisy (fluxion 



