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will be found a great relief : should this not 

 remove it^ a cooling purgative must be added. 

 Nothing can be better as a cooling medicine 

 than Seidlitz powders : should this not carry it 

 off, a proper quantity of blood must be immedi- 

 ately abstracted to unload the distended vessels ; 

 nor should it be delayed by any vain fear, as 

 another day's riding might bring on a fever, 

 which might confine him in some wild waste, far 

 removed from all medical assistance, or any one 

 able to apply the lancet to him; therefore he must 

 abstract it himself while he is able, without any 

 hesitation, and which may be done with ease and 

 safety by observing the following directions : — 



First lay the left arm on a table, with the palm 

 of the hand upwards ; have a fillet or bandage 

 ready, which get some person to pass round the 

 arm, about two inches above the elbow, so as to 

 compress the vein above the part from which you 

 intend to abstract the blood ; let it remain a 

 little time, in order that a distension of accumu- 

 lated blood may take place. But you must not 



