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repeating it in three or four days, if prefent ap- 

 pearances juflify the propriety of the practice. 



If the fubjedl is greatly depr^fled with pal- 

 pable fever, difquietude, lofs of appetite, and 

 internal painful fenfations, glyfters muft be fub- 

 ftituted; but as thefe need not be compofed of 

 variety, makeufeof the^^^r, p. 239, which 

 may be moft eafily prepared. To attenuate 

 the blood, relieve the lungs and take off the 

 heterogeneous load from the circulation, as well 

 as to mitigate all fymptoms of fever (if fuch 

 there are) adopt the mode of treatment par- 

 ticularly defcribed, p. 245, taking in the affift- 

 ance of the peroral deco6liony p. 216, if the 

 lungs are very much oppreffed, and fymptoms 

 of approaching inflammation are at all appre- 

 hended. The appetite muft be attended to 

 and folicited in every ftage of the difeafe, by 

 comfortable mafhes, and the trifling minutijE 

 fo oiten repeated in the preceding part of the 

 work. 



So foon as alarming or predominant fymp- 

 toms fubfide, proceed to a courfe of the mild 

 purging balls, p. 219, going regularly through 

 three dofes, at fuch periods as are bell adapted 

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