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necessary to give a few pages of plain, practical advice, 

 on the more common diseases to which he may be liable 

 We will begin with 



FEVERS. 



INTERMITTENT, OR FEVER AND AGUE. 



SYMPTOMS. These are well known, and need not be 

 described. 



TREATMENT. The bowels should be cleansed in the 

 first place. An emetic is perhaps the readiest mode of 

 doing it. The following are each good. 



EMETIC. 



Ipecacuanha, four ounces.- 

 Lobelia, four ounces. 

 Blood-root, two ounces. 



Pulverized ; and a tea-spoonful given in warm tea, 

 every half hour till it operates. 



ANOTHER. 



Ipecacuanha, fifteen or twenty grains. 

 Dissolve in warm water ; give a table -spoonful every 

 ten minutes till it operates. 



ANOTHER. 



Tartar emetic ; five or six grains. 



Dissolve in six table-spoonfuls of warm water. Take 

 a table-spoonful every ten minutes till it operates. 



Give warm boneset tea, or warm water to hasten the 

 operation. 



If the patient object to an emetic, give a purge. Calo- 



