FEVERS. 91 



Treatment of a Fever. 



Dissolve them in a quart of gruel ; then add. 



Six ounces of castor oil : 



Mix, and give it while new-aailk warm. 



After the first ball is given, the aloes may be 

 left out, and then the ball and drink may be given 

 once a day (one in the morning, the other in the 

 evening), until a proper passage be obtained. It 

 will be proper to assist the medicines in their ope- 

 ration by back-raking, and administering the clys- 

 ter (No. 13, p. 25). By these means the medi- 

 cines may be expected to purge in the course of 

 twelve, sixteen, or twenty hours. If, at the end 

 of that time, the fever still continue to increase, 

 it will be proper to take a little more blood from 

 him, and then to have recourse to the following 

 fever powders. 



(RECIPE, No. 58.) 



A powerful Mixture for Fevers, 



Take — Emetic tartar, one ounce ; 



Calcined awtimony, two ounces ; 



