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the throat is ascertained to be sore, blistering may 

 be resorted to, taking care to extend it over the 

 whole of the parts affected. See page 218. 



As in all other inflammatory diseases, bleeding 

 to an amount proportioned to the violence of the 

 attack, with purgatives and clysters, should ac- 

 company the foregoing external applications ; and 

 these, with plenty of bran mashes, sodden corn, 

 and the fever powders prescribed at page 190, will 

 reduce the symptoms. Similarly to those also will 

 be the precariousness of his complete recovery, and 

 so should be the care that the relapse, to which he 

 is for a time daily liable, should not reach to a great 

 height. But we need not repeat the general pre- 

 cautions set down at page 201. 



Unwilling to leave the reader in a dilemma as to 

 the mode of applying the bran poultice just recom- 

 mended, and upon the efficacy whereof he should 

 mainly rely, here is the sketch of a bandage proper 

 for such a purpose, with its fastenings. 



