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liquor which is hardly refreshing, and the other form is more 

 agreeable. But I am disposed to say that if we will dilute wine, 

 it should be constantly with cold water ; for a little plain wine 

 and water is a much more refreshing cordial than when it is 

 any how warm and diluted at the same time. I am willing to 

 make this remark, because I am strongly disposed to think that 

 it is rare that wine is admissible but when cold water is so too 

 at the same time ; indeed where more or less of catarrh and 

 cough, with some degree of angina, accompanies a nervous fever 

 in the winter or spring season, the cold water may be improper; 

 but this is more rarely the case, and never in the summer or 

 autumnal fevers. 1 ' 



CCXX. It may be supposed, and on good grounds, that 

 wine has an operation analogous to that of opium and some 

 other narcotic medicines. It may indeed be said, that we can 

 distinctly mark its stimulant power only, which renders its ef- 

 fects in the phrenitic delirium manifestly hurtful, and in the 

 mild delirium depending on debility, as remarkably useful. 

 But in all this, the analogy with opium is still obvious ; and it 

 is probable, that both wine and opium are more useful by their 

 sedative and antispasmodic than by their stimulant powers. 



CCXXI. These are the means of answering our second ge- 

 neral indication (CXXVI. 2.) ; and I now proceed to the third, 

 which is, To obviate or to correct the tendency of the fluids to 

 putrefaction. 



CCXXII. This may be done 



1. By avoiding any new application of putrid or putrescent 

 matter. 



2. By evacuating the putrid or putrescent matter already pre- 

 sent in the body. 



3. By correcting the putrid or putrescent matter remaining in 

 the body. 



4. By supporting the tone of the vessels, and thereby resist- 

 ing further putrefaction, or obviating its effects. 



CCXXI 1 1. The farther application of putrid or putrescent 

 matter may be avoided 



1. By removing the patient from places filled with corrupted 

 air. 



2. By correcting the air from which he cannot be removed. 



