272 JAUNDICE. 



fo dlftant from the power of the moil adllvc 

 medicine ; the great certainty of no advantage 

 being obtained but by the circuitous communi- 

 cation through the medium of the blood, and 

 the additional refledtion, palpably clear to the 

 judgment of every reader, that no fohent can 

 probably be conveyed through the circulation 

 onlyy fufficiently powerful to refolve or extirpate 

 tii\\tv fwellingyjchirro/ityy or tubercle y upon a 

 part fo diftant from the feat of adion as that 

 we now treat of. 



As the neceflary fteps for palliation of 

 fymptoms, or hope of cure, will confequently 

 be expeded, bleeding is of courfe premifed, to 

 reduce the contents and take ofFfome degree of 

 llridiare from the veflels ; remove obflrudions 

 in tlie body by mafbes pf malt and bran^ for 

 two or three days, as before direded, then pro- 

 ceed to the courfe of mercurial purging balls 

 here recommended, attending to the mode of 

 treatment fo often repeated : 



Take Barbadoes aloes one ounce j 

 Caftlle foap half .In ounce; 

 J.ilap and calomel each two drachms 5 

 Ginger one dn'chm 5 



Oils of juniper and anil'eed each twenty drops ; 

 Syrup fufficicui. to form the ball for one dofc. 



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