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frequently feen three gallons taken away, at one 

 time, not only with impunity, but beneficially. 



Simple fever, taken in time, ordinarily fub- 

 mits, in three days, to a courfe of medicine and 

 treatment nearly fimilar to that recommended in 

 a flight cafe of warm catarrh : naturally tending 

 to alcalization, fever is to be cured by acids. 

 Bleed agreeable to difcretion as to quantity, 

 give a drink of nitre, cremor tartar and honey, 

 from one to two ounces of the two former, each 

 a like quantity, in three pints of a warm decoc- 

 tion, or infufion of any, or as naany of the febri- 

 fucral herbs as can be readilv obtained, twice a 

 day ; plying the ht)rfe in the interim with as 

 much of fuch infufion as he will take in his wa- 

 ter, or ifneceflary, drenching him with it. The 

 chief of thefe herbs are, fcordium, or water orer- 

 mandes, pennyroyal, balm, fage, fweet fennel, 

 camomile, agrimony, pellitory, forrel, mallows, 

 and dandelion, the whole plant with the roots; 

 which lad fiands recommended by Boyle as a 

 febrifuge. The efficacy of thofe herbs, in this 

 cafe, is by no means equivocal or contemptible ; 

 but if none can be conveniently obtained, give 

 the medicine in gruel. 



If inflammatory fymptoms fupervcne, wath 

 violent puliation, and throbbing in the arteries, 

 fo as even to be vifible, bleed according to the 

 direftions in the Chapter on Bleeding, and con- 

 tinue the ufe of the lancet at intervals, whilft 



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