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propriety after the administration of a course 

 of the following balls, should they fail in the 

 desired effect. BLEEDING must be first 

 performed, and occasionally repeated in small 

 quantities, till the glandular inflammation 

 and irritability is reduced, and the blood is 

 so attenuated or divested of its viscidity, by 

 the constant and invariable repetition of the 

 nitre, that the circulation may be more freely 

 promoted through the finer vessels of the 

 lungs ; as from the obstructions in those finer 

 passages all the difficulties proceed. Bleed^ 

 ing having been performed with the neces- 

 sary circumspection as to quantitj^, let your 

 two ounces of 7iitre be given without the most 

 trifling remission every night and morning in 

 the water, as particularized in the first stage 

 of the disorder, continuing one of the follow- 

 ing balls every morning for a fortnight or 

 three weeks, that a fair and decisive trial 

 may be obtained. 



DETERGENT PECTORAL BALL. 



Take of Caslile soap, aniseed, and liquorice powders, 

 each five ounces ; 

 Barbadoes tar six ounces ; 

 Gum ammoniacum three ounces ; 

 Balsam of Tolu one ounce ; 



Honey (if required) to make a mass; which divide 

 into a dozen balls. 



