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There is many times the ftrongeft indication for 
puking and purging them, and yet it is extremely 
difficult to give them the common medicines ufual 
on fuch occafions ; whereas the antimonial wine may 
be given in their common drink with the utmofl eafe 
and fafety. I have very frequently given it with fuc- 
cefs, from ten to thirty drops, to children of a year 
or two old, in the chin-cough, and afthmatic opprefi- 
fions, when an attempt to force down more naufeous 
medicines had endangered a fuffocation and convul- 
fions. 
Should it be imagined, that this medicine, being 
fo fafe and eafy, can have no great efficacy as an al- 
terative and diaphoretic ; I anfwer, that as it is capa- 
ble, in a proper dofe, of irritating the ftomach and 
inteftines fo ftrongly, it cannot be fuppofed, even in 
very fmall dofes, to lie inactive in the fanguineous 
and lymphatic arteries ; and both feems, and eventu- 
ally is, exceedingly well adapted to ftimulate and 
fcour the whole vafcular fyftem. In confirmation 
of this,, we find, that when a pretty large dofe of the 
effence of antimony is given, as three or four 
drachms, for inftance, a large fweat almoft always 
fucceeds, if it is not immediately thrown up by 
vomit. By thus keeping up then, and quickening, 
the aCtion of the veflels on the contained fluids, the 
general circulation of the humours is moll effectually 
promoted ; and indeed fome fuch a ftimulus is very 
often highly neceflary in the ultimate ramifications 
of the fanguineous, ferous, and lymphatic arteries, 
where the motion is naturally exceeding flow, and 
where ftagnation, and confequent corruption of the 
ferum and lymph, are very apt to generate a putrid 
colluvies. 
