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of either nearer to each other, if appearances 

 of danger juftify the neceffity. 



Should the predominant fymptoms refufe 

 fubmifiion to a repetition of the medicines 

 here prefcribed, prepare the following anodyne 

 glyjier, and repeat it once in eight or twelve 

 hours, till fuccefs attends the joint adminiftra- 

 tion: 



THE ANODYNE CLYSTER. 



Take linfeed two ounces ; gum arable one ounce. 

 Boil in two quarts of gruel for feme time ; then 

 ilrain and add of diafcordium one ounce and a 

 half i liquid laudanum half an ounce, and cold 

 drawn linfeed oil four ounces. Let it be thrown 

 into the body with a proper bag and pipe, ufing 

 gentle prefTure. 



So foon as the inteftinal acrimony is ob^ 

 tunded by thefe means, and the excrements 

 refume their original form, let the return of 

 natural ftrength be folicited by every care and 



attention; give occafionally warm comfortable 

 maflies, as moil applicable to the ftate of ap- 

 petite, and let no v/ater entirely cold be dranl^ 

 for fome days; introduce your dry feeds by 



degrees, 



