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approach Is indicated by the fymptoms before 

 recited. The moft rational methods of cure 

 will be to correal or difcharge the primary 

 caufe, to allay the fpafms, and to reduce the 

 extreme degree of irritability, by ftrengthening 

 the nervous fyftem ; the caufes of irritation are 

 not only rem.ote but various, and relief mufl 

 confequently be occaiionally obtained by dif- 

 ferent means. 



The firfl: ftep to cure will be, at all events, 

 to draw blood, and that in quantity according 

 to exigencies and the ftate of your fubjed:. 

 In cafes of real alarm and danger bleed in two 

 veins remote from each other, to caufe the 

 greater revulfion. Although it becomes abfo- 

 lutely neceffary to Simulate and roufe the ani- 

 mal powers after the paroxyfm, little can be 

 done during the jfit ; however, a glyfter may 

 be prepared, according to the following direc- 

 tions, and given as foon as poffible. 



If the caufe is afcertained (or fuppofed) to 

 proceed from an increafed velocity of the blood, 

 and confequent inflammation upon the brain, 

 give the glyfter prefcribed in p. 45 : if from 

 extreme irritation in the ftomach and bowels, 

 6 give 



