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ippraach is indicated by the fymptoms before 

 recited. The moft rational methods of cure 

 will be to corredt or difcharge the primary 

 caufe, to allay the fpafms, and to reduce the 

 ■extreme degree of irritability, by itrengthening 

 the nervous fyflem; the caufes of irritation are 

 not only remote but various, and relief muft 

 confequently be occafionally obtained by dif- 

 ferent means. 



The firfl: ftep to cure will be, at all events, 

 to draw blood, and that in quantity according 

 to exigencies and the ftate of your fubjctiit. 

 In cafes of real alarm and danger bleed in two 

 veins remote from each other, to caufe the 

 greater revulfion: although it becomes abfo- 

 lutely neceflary to ftimulate and roufe the ani- 

 mal powers after the paroxyfm, little can be 

 done during the fit; however a glyfter may 

 be prepared, according to the following direc- 

 tions, and given as foon as pofTible. 



If the caufe is afcertained (or fuppofed) to 

 proceed from an increafed velocity of the blood, 

 and confequent inflammation 'upon the brain, 

 give the glyfter prefcribed in p. 45: if from 

 extreme irritation in the ftomach and bowels, 



give 



