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that fliould purges by 3pecacuahna> given fo as to puke 

 two or three times. 



But although I confider mercury as the bafis of the curc^ 

 cfpccially in the beginning of this difeafe, I by no means 

 intend to condemn, or omit the ufe of proper alexiphar« 

 mics and antifeptics; of which the fcrpentaria, coutrayerva^ 

 and Peruvian bark are the moft powerful, and liave been 

 nfed with the greateft fuccefs. Sweating is certainly one 

 way, by which nature carries off this difeafc; infomuch 

 that Jliixhmn declares he did not reutend)er to liave iiad 

 one patient mifcarry, who fell into a foftjeaiys iiniverral 

 fvvcat ; And therefore, whatever method of cure was pur 

 fued, this fhould be always conneded with it. The pati 



ent fliould be kept in bcd> and as the dlfcafe has a putrid 

 tendency, the diaphoretics fliouId be of the alexipluirmic 

 and antifeptic kinds. The bark is certainly a mofl pow 



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erful annfcpticj and when the fyrnptoms of piitrefaftioi ^ 

 fuch as a moift clammy fl^in, highly putrid breath, and 

 hemorrhages appear, mufl: be attended with advantage. 

 But early in the difeafe, while the ikiii coatinuea dry^ at- 

 tended with a great difficulty of breathing, and the fymp- 

 toms of inflammation rather than thofe of putrefatSion pre- 

 vail, It {hould be omitted; and here the removal of the dif 



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order {hould be attempted, chiefly, by mercurials and mild 

 fudorifics. And indeed I think the whole art, in the cure 



of this difeaie, depends upon properly timcing thefe rcme™ 



dies, and infifting upon one or the other, as the fymptoma 

 of putrefadion do, more or lefs, prevail 



But befides a falivation, and fweating, nature frequently 

 carries o^ this dileafe by an eruption on the Ikin, ulcers 

 behind the ears, or in other parts of the body, or an exter- 

 nal fwelllng of the throat, all of which feem evidently to 

 indicate the ufe of blifters. And accordingly Drs. Father-' 

 gill and Hiixham recommended them; particularly Dr. 

 Iluxham^ who fays he has fometimes bliftcred the throat 

 from ear to ear with great fuccefs. It has indeed been faid, 

 that they fometimes produced mortifications, and that even 



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