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made agreeable with lime-juice, and some- 

 what hot with cayenne pepper : both the lime- 

 juice and the pepper may be taken in large 

 quantities, if the vomiting assume a bad ap- 

 pearance, or if the strength sink ; and the 

 hot bath, with the frictions already described, 

 ought to be rigidly employed. Spruce beer 

 is an excellent drink, in the same state of the 

 system (when its energies are considerably 

 exhausted), — as also is brisk bottled stout. 

 When the matters discharged from the sto- 

 mach become black, and the skin assumes a 

 yellow tinge, doses of the oil of turpentine, 

 varying from a quarter of an ounce to one 

 ounce, taken occasionally, but not frequently, 

 furnish a reasonable prospect of relief. 



Dysentery. — If you should be attacked 

 with dysentery, and if you should have vio- 

 lent pain and much fever, you ought to be 

 bled freely, and a blister should be applied 

 over the abdomen. 



