272 JAUNDICE, 



fb diftant from the power of the moft adive 

 medicine; the great certain^y of no advantage 

 being obtained but by the circuitous communi- 

 cation through the medium of the blood, and 

 the additional refledion, palpably clear to the 

 judgment of every reader, that no fohenf csLti 

 probably be conveyed through the circulation 

 onlyy fufficiently powerful to refolve or extirpate 

 cither fwelling, fcirrbo/ity, ox tubercle^ upon a 

 part fo diftant from the feat of adion as that 

 we now treat of. 



As the neceflary fteps for palliation of 

 fymptpms, or hope of cure, will confequently 

 be expeded, bleeding is of courfe premiled to 

 reduce the contents and take off fome degree of 

 ftridure from the veffels \ remove obftrudions 

 in the body by ?najhes of malt and bran^ for 

 two or three days, as before direded, then pro- 

 ceed to the courfe of mercurial purging balls 

 here recommended, attending to the mode of 

 treatment fo often repeated : 



Take Barbadoes aloes one ounce ; 



Caftile foap half an ounce ; 



Jalap and calomel each two drachms 5 



Ginger one drachm ; 



Oils of juniper and anifeed each twenty drops; 



Sprup fufficient to form the ball for one dofe. 



This 



