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beef-tea with or without rice, or toast for three or four 

 days, a glass or two of sherry wine, and exercise in the 

 open air, either on foot or horseback, or carriage, or still 

 better, all combined. Exercise should be taken befoie 

 jmeals, and the patient lounge on a sofa for two or three 

 hours after meals. Change of air, fully fifty or one 

 hundred miles distant, is of great benefit. After three 

 or four days, beef-steak or mutton-chop should supersede 

 the beef-tea, and then a few vegetables, well boiled, may 

 be taken. A few drops of the balsam of copaiba, say 

 eight or ten drops combined, with ten of aquae potassse, 

 and a teaspoonful of sweet nitre, in half a cup of cold 

 water sweetened, and taken at bed-time, has a most 

 soothing efiiect. Frank^s Specific is the most elegant 

 and agreeable preparation of copaiba, even preferable to 

 the capsules. There is an imitation of Frank's Specific 

 prepared by the chemists of London. 



22. The vitiated taste of the mouth is generally a 

 symptom of dyspepsia, and is to be cured in the same 

 way. 



23. The looseness of the bowels is to "be treated by 

 ^Hhr owing away tobacco for ever ;" by prescribing an 

 astringent mixture of the electuary of catechu, prepared 

 chalk, syrup of ginger and laudanum; by farinaceous 

 and milk diet for eight days, with rest in bed for four or 

 five days, then for the same time on a sofa. At the end 

 of eight or ten days, beef soup with rice, or lightly toasted 

 bread, puddings of rice, sago, and arrow root, for four or 

 five days. Then beef-steak or mutton-chop, with rice, 

 lightly toasted brfead, and a glass or two of port wino^ 



