ON EPIDEMIC COLDS. 34J 



day as long as needful. It has a mofl; power- 

 ful effeft upon the whole vafcular fyftem, pro- 

 moting all the animal fecretions, and (hould be 

 kept ready for ufe. Or, for a hafty occafion, 

 two ounces antimonial wine, in a drink of 

 (Irong beer, or ale, fweetened with treacle, twice 

 or thrice a day. For other antimonial medi- 

 cines, proper in colds attended with much fe-~ 

 ver, fee Fever. 



RHEUMATISM 



Has been already defined a chronic local 

 cold. Its feat is among the integuments of the 

 mufcles, and according to Dr. Darwin, it con- 

 fifts of infpifTated mucus left upon their fafci a, 

 paining them when they move, and rub againft 

 it, like any extraneous material. It is proba- 

 ble, ihejciatica, or hip-gout in horfes, is merely 

 a rheumatifm, at leaft there is no danger in 

 confounding them, fince their cure will be the 

 fame. Dr. Bracken fays, the rheumatifm is 

 properly a diforder of the flrong and robuft, 

 by which, I fuppofe, he meant, that the vigo- 

 rous mufcular contrafitions of fuch are moft 

 retentive of the morbid humour ; but as fimilar 

 effe61s fometimes happen from oppofite caufes, 

 the difeafe may remain fixed in a weak habit, 

 from deficient irritability, and infufficient ener- 

 gy in the fibrous anions to calf it off. In 



truth, I have feen chronic rheumatifm fuffi- 



ciently 



