■238 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO IGQS. 



drinking iced drinks. They mast purge once in fifteen days with the medicine 

 marked c, to prevent a relapse. The days that are not marked before for taking 

 any remedy, as the 8th, 10th, 12th, they must take in the morning and even- 

 ing one of the packets, marked A, as before. If the sick has no rest in the 

 night because of great pains, or too frequent stools, it is convenient to take a 

 spoonful, or one and a half, of the syrup of coral, according to the violence of 

 the distemper, mixed with a glass of ptisan. 



Children, delicate persons, and women with child, may use it in the follow- 

 ing manner : 



For children that are yet sucking, or are under 3 years old, they must take 

 but the 8th part of the doses of the remedies. Children from 3 years old to 

 10 may take a 4th part ; from 10 to 15, a 3d ; from 15 to 20, the half: the 

 same dose will serve for tender persons, and such as are aged, and women with 

 child. 



After all these remedies are used, the patient may take for 15 days, a spoon- 

 ful of the stomachic elixir, pure, or in 4 spoonfuls of water. It is made after 

 the following method : 



The Stomachic Elixir. — p> Of red Saunders, of lignum aloes, each half an 

 ounce, cinnamon two ounces, of little cardamoms, galangal, cloves, zedoary, each 

 an ounce; ofanniseed, fennel, and kermes, each two drachms ; of liquorice, two 

 ounces ; of cashu, of crystal mineral, of each one ounce ; of raisins 4 ounces ; 

 dates, 10 or twelve, cut the dates and the raisins into little bits, and having beaten 

 that which ought to be beaten, put all into a matras, and pour upon them a 

 quart of brandy, in which the crystal mineral shall be dissolved ; infuse them a 

 whole night, and the next day add two pounds of aquavitae, and let all infuse in 

 the cold for four days, shaking the glass four or five times a day; then filter the 

 liquor, and dissolve a pound of fine sugar in it. 



During the course of the disease, the patient must eat little, and shun what 

 is of hard digestion, and hardly distributed, or easily corrupted^ as pastry, beef 

 a la mode, pork, either salt or fresh meats: and eat things of good nourish- 

 ment, such as are broth made of beef, or of the scrag end of a neck of mutton, 

 or a parti idge, or an old cock, wliose bones have been broken, and that with- 

 out herbs ; instead of which, may be taken two or three white onions, with as 

 many cloves in them, avoiding boiled meats. 



It is usual for the diseased to believe that their dysenteries come from heat : 

 to allay which they use water, chicken broth, or whey, which often jirove 

 mortal to them. But it is very necessary for them to forbear much driiiking, 

 for the heat and thirst which they feel, are only symptoms and accidents of their 

 distempers, and not the cause. Some are much enfeebled and emaciated by the 

 length of the disease ; and it will be convenient in the intervals to give thera 



