MEDICINE. 
food may be taken for an early dinner, if it 
does not greatly increase the heat, and 
when the appetite becomes voracious, 
which it sometimes does towards the fatal 
termination, small quantities should be ta- 
ken frequently ; the drink, in almost every 
period of the disease, should consist of toast 
and water, Malvern water, milk and water, 
butter-milk, rice water, or the juice of 
ripe subacid fruits mixed with water, and 
occasionally lemonade.Wine, spirits, and fer- 
mented liquors of all kinds must be strictly 
prohibited, and the practice of mixing rum 
and other spirits with milk, cannot be too 
strongly reprobated ; where, however, there 
is but little increased excitement, and the 
pain is inconsiderable, a more nourishing 
diet, and a moderate quantity of wine may 
be allowed, but the wine should be more 
or less diluted with water, and in the puru- 
lent stage, an invigorating diet always 
affords more or less relief. During the 
whole course of the disease, every irregu- 
larity and all crowded places must be stu- 
diously avoided. The patient should be ad- 
vised to repair to Bristol in the early part 
of the disease, and should make use of such 
exercise as his strength will bear, as swing- 
ing, gestation in a carriage, or riding on 
horse-back in progressive journeys, or the 
alternation of this last exercise, and gesta- 
tion in a carriage, but a sea voyage is the 
most effectual of all kinds of gestation ; the 
patient must by all means avoid the pierc- 
ing north-east winds in this country, it will 
therefore be advisable for him to visit a 
temperate southern climate during the win- 
ter and spring : the patient should be ad- 
vised to lie on a hair mattrass, with slight 
coverings over his body, and should be 
earnestly requested to go to bed early, and 
to get up soon in the morning, even if 
obliged, dirough debility, to lie down in 
the course of the day : the feet should be 
kept dry and warm, and the patient should 
wear flannel or cotton next to his skin, the 
former, however, is far more salutary ; in 
the florid consumption, an elevated and in- 
tend air is often of the most essential ser- 
vice. Should we be so fortunate as to sub- 
due this too fatal disease by the means 
recommended' above, it will be indispensa- 
bly requisite for the patient to persevere in 
employing the regimen recommended in 
the treatment of this complaint, for a con- 
siderable length of time after every symp- 
tom of the disease has disappeared, and he 
must return to his former manner of living 
witii ths utmost caution j the diet should, 
however, be light and nourishing, and in 
moderate quantity : the patient should 
breathe a pure dry air, and should take 
such exercish, particularly on horse-back, 
as he can bear without fatigue, and should 
use the warm bath ; and when the consti- 
tution can be brought to bear it, he may 
employ the cold bath or sea bathing. 
Order 'V. Pr»jtuvia. Ixsangeireous 
Fluxes. 
These are ordinally characterised, as con- 
sisting of pyrexy with an increased secre- 
tion, naturally void of blood. The genera 
are two: 1 . Catarrhus, Catarrh. 2. Dysen- 
teria, Dysentery. This order might ea- 
sily be suppressed, and the genera it com- 
prises transferred to other situations tO' 
which they more properly belong, even 
under the present nosology. Catarrh is de- 
scribed as possessing pyrexy, frequently 
contagious ; an increased secretion of mu- 
cus, or at least elFoi'ts to excrete it. Dy- 
sentery, as evincing contagious pyrexy, 
frequent mucus or bloody stools, while the 
alvine feces are for the most part retained^ 
gripes, tenesmus. 
Catarrh will be distinguished from the 
measles by the greater mildness of the fe- 
brile symptoms, by the state of the eyes, 
by the absence of coma, and many of the 
symptoms accompanying the eruptive fever 
of measles. 
This disease is rarely attended with 
danger, except there be great difficulty of 
breathing, attended with a livid and bloated 
countenance, or it has been treated with 
negligence or impropriety, in which case it 
often passes into pneumonic inflammation, 
attended with symptoms of the utmost 
danger ; in general, however, it is a slight 
and safe disease, unless it attack persons 
of a phthisical habit, or those advanced in- 
life ; in the former it may occasion- phthisis, 
and in the latter, peripneumonia notha. 
For its cure, nothing more is requisite, in- 
general, than abstinence from animal food 
for a few days, keeping the body warm, 
and drinking freely of tepid mucilaginous 
diluents ; if there be, however, a consider- 
able degree of excitement, blood-letting 
will be necessary, but it must be employed 
with some degree of caution, as it is fre- 
quently succeeded by depression of strength, 
particularly when catarrh is epidemic. If 
there be much oppression and tightness 
about the chest, occasioning a degree of 
dyspnoea, local blood-letting will be advis- 
able, and blisters must be applied to the 
