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especially if he is recently arrived from Europe^ 

 or has been confined to a large and populous city^ 

 leading a sedentary life^ to take five grains of 

 calomel at nighty and a dose of Epsom salts the 

 following morning ; which will carry off any ex- 

 crementitious matter that may be lodged in the 

 bowels ; prepare him to undergo the first day's 

 journey with more comfort to himself, and render 

 his constitution less liable to feel the effects of 

 such violent horse exercise as he will experience, 

 and which probably he may not be very well ac- 

 quainted with, but will find it, generally speak- 

 ing, as follows. In the first place, owing to his 

 travelling with a speed scarcely known in Eu- 

 rope, he is shaken to that excess, that a great 

 secretion of bile takes place, which generally 

 produces diarrhoea: this in a little time will go 

 off, and be followed by very great costiveness, 

 which, if not carried off by a little opening me- 

 dicine, may terminate in very unpleasant symp- 

 toms, such as head-ache, fever, 8cc. Let these 

 two principles be borne in mind, to keep the 



