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dilation. For which purpose, the following pre- 

 scription will be found excellent : 



Take camphor, six drams ; nitre, and cream 

 of tartar, of each two ounces : powder and 

 mix them well together, and add honey 

 sufficient to make the whole of a proper 

 consistency, and divide into four balls. 



One of these balls may be given every six or 

 eight hours ; his clothing should be warm ; and 

 his diet warm mashes of bran ; his drink should be 

 warm water, with a little sweet bran or oatmeal 

 sprinkled on its surface, or warm water-gruel. 



His body should be kept open, by the following 

 clyster : 



Take Barbadoes aloes in fine powder, half an 

 ounce : diisolve it in two quarts of strong 

 linseed tea. 



Let this clyster, a little warm, be thrown up 

 the rectum, by a bladder and pipe, every five or 

 six hoUfl 



If the irritation and fever continue to increase 

 after the above treatment, (which is not often the 

 case) a little more blood may be taken away, and 



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