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to him to indicate it. He afterwards has 
recourfe to opium. Opium fails of pro¬ 
ducing the wifhed-for effect. He then 
pafles to the ufe of aftringents, and here 
too he is difappointed. In fome of his 
patients, the diarrhoea takes on the cha¬ 
racter of dyfentery, in others the purging 
ceafes, but dropfy fupervenes, a'nd his 
patients die. 
Our phyfician employs his emetics and 
purgatives againft the itch, and to them 
fucceed mercurial and fulphur inundtions. 
Some of the patients remain in the fame 
ftate, others are cured of the itch, and arc 
attacked with intermittent fevers, and thefe 
are the mod fortunate; in a great number of 
others the vifeera become affeCfed, and 
many perifli. 
The miafmata, which excited the inter¬ 
mittent fevers, likewife gave rife to the 
alvine flux and cutaneous eruptions, by 
aCfing upon the nerves which govern the 
fecretion 
