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calculated to communicate its morbid effects 

 with virulence wherever it takes its feat; which, 

 upon being repelled and compulfively abforbed 

 into the circulation, it will of courfe be em- 

 powered to do, if not fpeedily carried off, by 

 mercurial or antimonial preparations. 



Should coughs or difficulty of breathings at- 

 tend, draw blood from a remote vein in mode- 

 rate quantity, to mitigate either of thofe fymp-» 

 toms; but neither being prefent let the ope- 

 ration be omitted, unlefs particularly urged or 

 indicated by a great degree of inflammatory 

 heat. So foon as the fwellings about the neck, 

 head, or throat, have acquired a palpable pro- 

 minence, foment twice a day with the follow- 

 ing decodion: 



Take camomile, v/ormwood, marfiimallows, 

 and elder flowers, of each a large handful ; 

 boil in three quarts of water for a quarter of 

 an hour; then ftrain off, and foment the fwell- 

 ing well with flannels dipped in the hot liquid, 

 and apply the herbs warm by way of poultice 

 to the parts, confining them on, and repeating 

 the ceremony for two or three days. 



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