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tributes much to the reduction of the abdominal 

 swelling which is so marked a feature in this disease. 

 Artificial baths prepared with aqueous decoctions of 

 cephalic herbs and tartar or nitre may also be used. 



Subsequent fomentation has been found valuable. 

 Let the patient be placed in a sufficiently large tub, 

 and be surrounded with tepid malt which has been 

 for a short time infused in boiHng water (as in the 

 process of making beer), and let him remain there 

 almost covered till perspiration is brought on. 



Of the Symptoms 



The symptoms supervening in this disease have 

 to be considered. Of these, the most common is 

 diarrhoea, for the cure of which mild cathartics, 

 such as infusion of rhubarb, tamarinds, and sandal- 

 wood, or a bolus compound of these, are specially 

 useful. Sometimes recourse must be had to astrin- 

 gents and bland opiates, of which formulae are to be 

 found here and there in books, but these are to be pre- 

 ceded by purgation and sometimes also by a vomit. 



In addition, immoderate sweating is apt to occur in 

 this disorder. If this comes on in a febrile paroxysm 

 it may be critical, but it must not be rashly sup- 

 pressed. But if it be inordinate and exceeding what 

 might be expected from the cause, it is an indication 

 that the body is loaded with cacochymical humours, 

 and accordingly sweating of that sort is to be 

 corrected by mild purgation repeated at intervals ; 

 the purgation is to be brought about chiefly by 

 rhubarb ; sometimes a vomit may be joined with it, 

 nor should aperients and digestives be omitted. 



Difficult dentition often occurs in this disease, and 

 not unfrequently brings on fever. When this is the 

 case, a gentle evacuation, best by clysters, should be 



