EXERCISE. 23T 



the system to be immediately invigorated with 

 increased supplies of food, that by forming 

 the means of nutrition, the crassamentum 

 of the blood might be augmented ; assisting 

 this with a pectoral cordial ball every morn- 

 ing, not more to enliven the circulation, than 

 by warm and gentle stimulation to restore the 

 tone of the stomach and intestines, totally 

 debilitated by the injudicious administration 

 of mercurial cathartics, and the long and im- 

 proper use of the nitre. These desirable points 

 being obtained, I recomn:iended, at the end 

 of six or seven days, the fair trial of a course 

 of the advertised Alterative Powders, to 

 gradually obtund the acrimonious particles 

 of the blood, with the external application 

 of the Vegeto Mineral, properly proportioned 

 to allay the irritation ; but I must confess, 

 without any great hopes of succeeding in 

 parts of the frame so very remote from the 

 active power of medicine. 



The other was the case of a coach 

 HORSE, little less singular in its mode of 

 treatment ; as no one step taken seemed to 

 be at all regulated by any well-founded in- 



