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idolization^ I venture to pronounce, its good 

 effeds can only be obtained by judicious admi- 

 niftrations of fuch proportions as are properly 

 calculated to promote the purpofes for which 

 they are defigned. Its properties and efFefe 

 being now more generally afcertained than 

 FORMERLY, the inconfiftency of blending it 

 (in large quantities) with medicines intended 

 to promote perfpiration is palpably ftriking; as 

 it is well known to every medical pradiitioner 

 its intermediation v/ould rather tend to deftroy 

 the earneft intent of the whole. 



On the contrary, given in foiall quantities of 

 half mi oiifice, or ounce ^ once or tvvice a day in 

 the beginning oi itvtvs,Wixh good ?Jiir/ing, 7720^ 

 de?^ate clothing, warm maJJjes, and diluting drinks 

 of thin gruel, it may frequently have a very 

 good eited: -, but fhould the predominant iyvcxV- 

 toms not fubmit to that treatm.ent, no larger 

 dofes of nitre fhould be ventured upon to 

 hazard a too great and fudden diffclution of the 

 blood, or an obftrudion to the critical perfpi- 

 ration, upon v/hich a fpeedy cure very much 

 depends. 



Upon the non-fubmifficn of i\^mpicms to 

 thsfe means, the following gentle fyfrem mufl 



R 2" be 



