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lour, foetid in smell ; bearing the appearance 

 of impregnation with grease, as if with some 

 foul oily substance in the intestines, similar 

 to the last discharge after the injection of a 

 glyster. Nature, in the present instance, ge- 

 nerally performs her own work with so much 

 ease, that the least appearance of pain is hardly 

 perceptible. In preference to the custom 

 of waiting day after day for its termina- 

 tion, thereby giving it an opportunity, by its 

 acrimonious quality, (which may irritate and 

 affect more or less, accordino* to circum- 

 stances and the state of the subject acted 

 upon), to debilitate the frame, it will be most 

 prudent to give the following laxative drinks 

 and assist nature in carrying off what it would 

 be highly improper to retain : 



Take senna and cream of tartar each two ounces^ 

 Epsom salts three ounces ; 



Ginger bruised half an ounce. — Boil in a pint of thin, 



, gruel for ten minutes ; then strain and let it be 



given a little warm, and the gentle operation en- 



couraged by frequent small quanlities of gruelf 



"water. 



On the contrary, should this plan be re* 



. jected as unnecessary, and the looseness or 



^4:ouring continue for any length of time, so 



