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the fyftem to be immediately invigorated 

 Xvith increafed fupplies of food, that by form- 

 ing the means of nutrition, the crafiamentum 

 of the blood might be augmented ; affifting 

 this with a peroral cordial ball every morn- 

 ing, not more to enliven the circulation, than 

 by warm and gentle ftimulation to reftore th<^ 

 tone of the ftomach and inteftines, totally de^ 

 bilitated by the injudicious adminiflfation of 

 mercurial cathartics, and the long and impro- 

 per ufe of the nitre, Thefe defirable points 

 being obtained, I recommended, at the end 

 of fix or feven days, the fair trial of a courfe 

 of the advertifed Alterative Powders^ 

 to gradually obtund the acrimonious particles 

 of the blood, with the external application of 

 the Fegeto Mineral^ properly proportioned to 

 allay the irritation j but I muft confefs, 

 without any great hopes of fucceeding in 

 parts of the frame fo very remote from the 

 a(5tive power of medicine. 



The other was the cafe of a coach 

 HORSE, little lefs Angular in its mode of 

 treatment; as no one ftep taken feemed to 

 be at all regulated by any well-founded in- 

 tention 



