AND SURGERY. " 24I 



" it allays extreme thirft, and obtunds the acri- 

 *' mony of humours, thickens the too thin 

 " ferum ; and is a well fuited medicine in hot 

 " conftitutions ; it opens obftru6lions, and pro- 

 ** motes a regular difcharge ; puts an effeftual 

 " (top to diforders arifing from relaxed difeafed 

 " veflels, allays their irritation, and reftores their 

 *' due tone." Cedite Romani ! 



After the opening drink, the following is re- 

 commended with an — ' or this' — " Bole, red 

 *' fanders, wood-foot, with 2 oz. fpirits of tur- 

 *' pentine." — Then, as an infallible, and one 

 which generally gives a turn to the diforder in 

 twenty-four hours, a medicine compofed of 

 dragon's blood and bole, in a pint of the beft 

 French brandy ; two hours afterwards 1 oz. 

 fweet nitre. At laft, an enumeration is made of 

 various choice fpecifics, the firft upon the cata- 

 logue of which, are, hog's dung, turpentine and 

 butter-milk ; but the Do£lor informs us, that if 

 any benefit can arife from them, it mufi; be in 

 the beginning of the difeafe, " by checking the 

 " ftomach ; and that they can do no fervice 

 " when the relaxed ftate of the bead is arrived 

 " to an aftringent one." 



In Bracken's days nothing w^ould go down 

 with readers of a certain clafs, but " downright 

 " Dunftable ;" how amazingly the tafte of fuch 

 is improved, fmce nothing pleafes now, unlefs 

 it accord with the above elegant and highly 



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