PLEURISY. 217 



Tincture of jalap two ounces ; 

 And a quarter of a pint of olive oil. 

 This must be repeated in twenty-four hours, or oftener, 

 if necessary. 



Should (notwithstanding these efforts to 

 relieve) the symptoms continue equally pre- 

 dominant and alarming, not displaying the 

 least tendency to submission, after waitino- a 

 proper time for the desirable effect of pre- 

 vious administrations, let the blcedino- be re- 

 peated, and that in quantity proportioned 

 to the necessity or severity of symptoms, 

 continuing the decoction and nitre every 

 three or four hours, repeating the gli/ster, if 

 plentiful evacuations have not been obtained 

 by the former injection. 



The diluting drinA\ before described, is in- 

 troduced here in preference to a ball, that its 

 medicinal efficacy may be expeditiously con- 

 veyed to the seat of disease. So soon as the 

 wished-for advantages are observed, and the 

 predominant and dangerous symptoms be- 

 gin to subside, when he labours less in re- 

 spiratioYij is brisker in appearance, heaves less in 

 i\\Q flank, dungs frequently , stales freely, runs 

 aj: the nose^ eats his warm mashes of scalded 



