PLEURISY, &C. 121 



Recipe — A Clyster. 



(IIECIPE, No. 80.) 



Take — Fenugreek, four ounces ; 



Boil it in three pints of water, then strain the 



liquor, and add treacle, four ounces ; 

 Nitre, one ounce ; 

 Glauber's salts, four ounces ; 

 Linseed oil, half a pint : 

 Mix, and administer new-milk warm. 



Before the clyster is applied, a small hand 

 must be put up the rectum, in order to bring away 

 the hardened dung, otherwise it might impede the 

 clyster. It may be repeated once a day till the 

 physic operates. The pleurisy and peripneumo- 

 ny, properly speaking, are an inflammatory fever, 

 arising from the stagnation of blood in the bron- 

 chia of the lungs ; and unless speedy relief be ob- 

 tained, death will be the consequence. Different 

 authors recommend rowelling in the above dis- 

 eases ; but as it in general takes from three to 

 four days to bring them to a proper discharge, the 

 consequence may in that time either prove fatal, 



