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and, finking under xht putrid or malignant mi- 

 alma, difplays the degree of oppreffion nature 

 labours under in fymptoms fo very uncertain^ 

 that no literary dcfcription can accurately cor- 

 reipond with. 



It will therefore (as repeatedly recommended) 

 prove highly neccffary to attend particularly to 

 fymptoms, and proceed accordingly. At any 

 rate blood fliould be immediately drawn upon 

 the very firfl: appearance of difeafe (in quan- 

 TiTYCorrefponding with condition), that its 

 quality may be the better afcertained. Should 

 gbftrudions be obrerved in the body, they muft 

 be diredly removed by gently {Simulating or 

 emollient glyfters ; the appetite fliould be at- 

 tended to, and gratified in mafhes oi malt and 

 bran, bran and oats^ or plain bran, ftirring into 

 either of the laft, while hot, four ounces of 

 honey. Common drink of gruel water, impreg- 

 nated with nitre or cream of tartar, as before 

 direded, may be given as occafion requires. 

 Every five, fix, eight, or ten hours, (accord- 

 ing to the ft ate and danger of the difeafe), let 

 one of the following alexipharmic balls 

 te adminiftered, firft removing any intefl:inal 



obftruflion 



