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may be fafely drawn full five pints. However 

 thefe diftindions fliould bs carefully made by 

 meafarc, to avoid the inconvenience and dan- 

 ger of too much relaxing the whole fyftem ; 

 an impropriety in condud that may not be fo 

 eafily remedied as imagined. After this eva- 

 cuation let the fame regular fyftem of food, 

 and gentle exercife, be continued for three clear 

 days ; and on the fourth prepare his body for 

 the phylic intended to be taken on the follow- 

 ing morning, by giving him in the courfe of 

 the day three majhes of equal parts of bran and 

 oats, fcalded with boiling water, and given, 

 at a proper degree of warmth, morning, noon, 

 •and nights putting on the necelTary body 

 clothes, at the time of giving the firft mafh, 

 to prevent the leaft hazard of cold from the 

 relaxation of either body or pores. In the 

 morning give one of the following- />//r^/77^ 

 balh^ of which four different proportions are 

 ^ecifiedj and calculated for the hbrfes before 

 mentioned, in refpe<fl to ftrength, fize, and 

 conftitution. But as we (liall, in the courfe 

 of the work, have occafion to introduce refe- 

 rences to thefe CATHARTIC BALLS, undct 

 the heads of various difeafes, it will be more 

 convenient to diftinguifh them by numbers } 

 D 2 and. 



