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lirfl by Its retention will have relaxed the In- 

 durated contents of the inteftines, and rendered 

 them ready for immediate expulfion, by the 

 aftive power of the additional flimulants here 

 prefcribed. In two or three hours after fuch 

 evacuations (or fooner if feemingly requifite) 

 let a mafh oifcalded hran be placed in the rnaji- 

 ger, to which, if he refufes, a handful of oats 

 may be added by way of inducement ; if ftill 

 declined, let tliem be removed, and a fmall 

 quantity of very fweet hay left in the rack. Let 

 him be gently rubbed over, moderately clothed, 

 and well littered up with clean dry ilraw, after 

 giving him one ounce of 7iitre diflblved in a 

 fmall draught of warm water, flightly impreg- 

 nated with a proportion of thin gruel. 



Previous to farther directions for the 

 treatment of fevers, or instructions for the 

 preparation of medicine, it becomes unavoida- 

 bly neceiTary to lay fomething upon the quality 

 and indifcriminate ufe of that excellent article 

 nitrey the purpofes of which are fo frequently 

 proftituted in its general application by ^//clafTes 

 and in j// cafes, in compliment to Bartlet's 

 unlimited eulogiums; who has not only, in a 

 n variety 



