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twice a-day, when the stomach is a little empty, 

 at twelve and six : these last balls may be 

 washed down with a half pint of beer, or a quarter 

 of a pint (a wine-glass and a half) of port wine, 

 mixed with a wine-glass of water. Clysters, if 

 the bowels are not open, and hot fomentations 

 to the legs, must be used every day ; and if the 

 legs continue much swollen, they are to be sca- 

 rified. The first twenty hours, while the physic 

 is in his inside, feed on sweet fresh bran mashes 

 and a little dried green food: after that, as it 

 is the real epidemic, liberally on gram-flour 

 gruel — three quarts, three times a-day — boiled 

 gram with bran mash, boiled carrots, fresh lucern, 

 &c., and also thin gruel for drink — not water. 

 Continue this for a week or ten days, when 

 improvement or death will most probably have 

 taken place ; if the former, lessen the medicine 

 daily, and be careful to keep the bowels open 

 with clysters. 



