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If the predominant symptoms should not 

 submit in four-and-twenty or six-and-thirty 

 hours, attend to those most alarming, and 

 proceed to their mitigation accordingly ; if 

 still costive, repeat the laxative glyster^ or the. 

 following: drink : 



Take Epsom salts and cream of tartar, each three 

 ounces ; 

 Soluble tartar one ounce ; dissolve in three quarters 

 of a pint of thin gruel ; then add tincture of jalap 

 half an ounce, and tincture of senna two ounces.-— 

 Mix. 



Should the cough increase, bleed, in pro- 

 portion ; if the urine is small in quantity, 

 Jhigh in colour, or deposits a turbid sedi- 

 ment upon being saved, givemVr^? frequently, 

 and in small proportions, as before directed. 

 Duiing all the tedious ceremonv of indis- 

 position wait with patience, and attend to 

 the indications of Nature more than the be- 

 wildered doubts and prognostics of the far- 

 rier, w^ho, \^uo\vm^Y\i\\e oiiViQ anatomical 

 structure, less of the animal economy^ and to- 

 tally incapable of forming any consistent idea 

 of the properties of medicine, stands a per- 

 plexed stanger to both causes and events, pro- 

 fessionally insensible to the foundation of 

 either hope ox fear. 



