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with a little more trouble, you may most 

 assuredly shorten the disease : by this me- 

 thod your discharge wUl be copious, every 

 symptom will gradually decline, and the cure, 

 under the following aid^ and regulations, 

 becomes speedily complete^ 



Though bleeding is in general a very in- 

 different practice, where a flux of matter is 

 solicited to any particular part of suppura- 

 tion, yet circumstances of danger (some- 

 times) not only justif)^ but powerfully direct 

 a deviation from the path of custom. For 

 instance, should the fever run high, and all 

 other symptoms equally violent, either in the 

 beginning, or during a more advanced state, 

 bleeding must be certainly submitted to, but 

 not in too large quantity. Mashes must be 

 the constant food, in small proportion, to 

 prevent waste; in each of which put of //- 

 quorke and aniseed powders half an ounce, 

 and about two ounces of //(??2^j/, unless a quart 

 oi malt is introduced, when the honey may 

 be omitted. The drink should be given little 

 and often, impregnating the warm water 

 with a portion of scalded bran or water gruel ; 

 the head to be kept well covered with a 

 boodp or other temporary substitute, as th§ 



