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the pulse. It should be small at first in quantity ; 

 but should the pulse rise after it, as is sometimes 

 the case, we need not be afraid . of repeating it. 

 Where the pulse is also hard, strong, and frequent, 

 and the powers are great, bleeding largely must 

 take place, and vice versa. 



Where the urine is in small quantities, and of 

 an high colour, we may venture to bleed. We 

 should attend to the patient's diet ; warm mashes 

 of bran, sometimes mixed with a few oats, and a 

 little sweet hay, or grafs, will be found the best 

 food. 



Medicines producing nausea may be given, as 

 tending to lefsen the living powers ; such as tartar 

 emetic, antimonial powder, nitre, acids, warm 

 water, &c. will diminish the irritability. 



Glisters and purgings are also a means of les- 

 sening inflammation ; but, in irritable habits, these 

 should be used with caution : of these the aloetic* 

 and mercurials are preferable. 



• When the wholeof the constitution sympathizes, 

 the same means must be pursued. When suppu- 

 ration takes place, it may also be diminished by 

 the same means. 



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