1080 GENERAL TREATMENT. 



the lungs is transferred to the solids, the tempera- 

 ture of the body has been raised above the normal 

 standard, as during fever, what so delightful and 

 calculated to restore the nutritive process as fresh 

 air, cooling ablutions, with refrigerating bever- 

 ages, lemonade, soda water, tamarind water, 1'eau 

 sucree, orange juice, &c. ? 



The great secret of a successful treatment con- 

 sists in knowing what remedies are best adapted 

 to restore the various functions to their natural 

 state, and to promote the evacuation of morbid 

 excretions, without impairing the vital properties 

 of the blood. And as nearly all diseases are 

 attended with more or less torpor of the bowels, 

 mild aperients are often required, or even active 

 purgatives, when the alvine excretions have been 

 long retained. 



To the honour of the medical profession, the 

 most enlightened physicians of the present day, 

 and especially those who attend the higher classes 

 of society, are more sparing in the use of the lancet, 

 leeches, the scarificator,and poisonous drugs, than 

 formerly. At the head of this class in England 

 stands Sir James Clark, whose judicious practice 

 has been justly rewarded by the patronage of the 

 Queen, a selection which is alike honourable to 

 both. But unfortunately for the mass of man- 

 kind, such is their ignorance in regard to the 

 laws of health, that if their medical attendant do 

 not dose them plentifully with nauseous com- 



