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without fait, fo as to be difcharged but little altered. 
This not only warmed and nour idled the patient, 
but diluted the acrimony, and ferved as. a mod 
comfortable fomentation to the whole intedinal 
canal. 
Clyders of this with Tmcl. 1'hcbaica I directed to be 
given three, or even, if the fymptoms were urgent, 
four times a day. When thefe fymptoms were abat- 
ed, as mod perfons were exceedingly debilitated, and 
their appetite almod gone, light decodfions ot Cort. 
Peruv. greatly hadened the recovery. 
I had the misfortune to fee three children die of 
four or five years old, after the feverity of the diieafe 
was over. Their bowels had for a week or more 
been free from pain. They were without fever. 
Their difcharges by dool both bloody and mucous 
were in a manner gone: neverthelefs they were fo 
much debilitated, and their ftomachs fo languid, 
that they obdinately refufed every fpecies of nourifh- 
ment by the mouth ; nor would they retain nutritious 
clyders: fo that in the end they funk from abfolute 
inanitition. In two of thefe, which by my direction 
were opened, I found their gall bladders turgid with 
high coloured vifcid bile. In both the domach and 
bowels were perfedtly empty, and their bodies ema- 
ciated to a great degree. In one, neither the do- 
mach nor bowels were in the lead degree inflamed or 
difcoloured ; except that a very few of the veins weie 
preternaturally enlarged upon the furface of the 
ccecum and colon. In the other, there had been an 
inflammation upon about ten inches of th q jejunum > 
but that had been refolved : as the bowel was almod 
redored to its natural colour, and was not in its 
4 O 2 texture 
