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ediy deprived it of a comiderahle portion of its 

 former estimation, and it is now reduced to 

 tbat rank of merit only experimentally found 

 to fall to its share. Taking it therefore with 

 the properties it is possessed of and entitled 

 to, not looking up to it as the grand arcanum 

 of infallibility or medical idolization, I venture 

 to pronounce, its good effects can only be 

 obtained by judicious administrations of 

 such proportions as are properly calculated 

 to promote the purposes for which they are 

 designed. Its properties and effects being 

 now more generally ascertained than for- 

 merly, the inconsistencv of blendinsj it ^iii 

 large quantities) with medicines intended to 

 promote perspiration is palpably striking; 

 as it is well known to eveiy medical prac- 

 titioner its intermediation would rather tend 

 to destroy the earnest intent of the whole. 



On the contrary, given in small quantities 

 of half an ounce, or ouvxe, once or twice a day 

 in the beginning of fevers, with good nursing, 

 moderate clothing, icafm mashes, and diluting 

 drinks of thin gruel, it may frequently have 

 a very good effect; but should the predo- 

 minant symptoms not submit to that treat- 



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