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idolizatioriy I venture to pronounce its good 

 effeds can only be obtained by judicious admi- 

 niftrations of fuch proportions as are properly 

 calculated to promote the purpofes for which 

 they are defigned. Its properties and efFedls 

 being now more generally afcertained than 

 FORMERLY, the inconfiltency of blending it 

 (in large quantities) with medicines intended 

 to promote perfpiration is palpably ftriking ; as 

 it is well known to every medical praditioner 

 its intermediation would rather tend to deftroy 

 the earneft intent of the whole. 



On the contrary, given in fmall quantities cf 

 half an ounce or ounce ^ once or twice a day ia 

 the beginning of fevers, with good nurfmg, mo- 

 derate clothings warm7naj]jesy 2.^^ diluting drinh 

 of thin gruel, it may frequently have a very 

 good effedt ; but (hould the predominant fymp- 

 toms not fubmit to that treatment, no larger 

 dofes of nitre fhould be ventured upon to ha«> 

 zard a too great and fudden diffolution of the 

 blood, or an obftrudlon to the critical perfpi- 

 ration, upon which a fpeedy cure very much 

 depends. 



Upon the non-fubmiffion of fymptoms to 

 thefe means, the following gentle fyftem muft 



R 2 be 



