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In pnrfaance of this obfervation, I thought I might 
try it, with all imaginable precautions, even on fuck- 
ing children. In the mean time I was very attentive 
to the effedt of the medicine. When the hr ft dole 
vomited or purged fufficiendy, I did not increale the 
lecond. Sometimes I diminifhed it, or even totally 
laid it afide for fome days. 
When this medicine produces nothing more than 
keckings at ftomach, and a plentiful expectoration 
of thick dime, the dofe may be fafely inpreafcd half 
a grain or a grain every day. And this flight aug- 
mentation of the dofe does not hinder the effedt. of 
the medicine from diminishing, in proportion as the 
patient comes nearer a perfedt cure. 
When the patient has been purged too violently 
by one of the firft dofes of this medicine, which are 
always fmall, it is a proof of the weaknels of the 
patient ; and then I give it to him but every fecond 
or third day. The diftance of time obferved between 
the dofes of this medicine makes it operate lefs 
brifkly, and more equally. 
When the 'uitrum antimonii ceratum vomits, the 
patient is to drink warm water at every motion. 
When the dyfenteric flux is attended with fharp 
pains in the abdomen , with heat and tenfion, the r ci- 
trum antimonii is not to be given, till the pains are 
removed by emollient clyfters, and other proper re- 
medies. 
I have not obferved any difference in the effedts of 
this medicine, whether the patient had, or had not, 
been bled or purged ; whether the difeafe were re- 
cent, or of long ftanding ; whether in fine it were at- 
tended with a fever, or not. They were all cured 
Mm2 equally 
